The aim of thediploma thesis is to design an architectural study of a new synagogue in Opava for the Jewish community. Content of the work is also a community center and administration. In the deign is a set of three buildings serving the Jewish community. The design is solved as an interconnected space between the public and the Jewish community. With its openness and permeability, it offers the opportunity to look into the Jewish community. The main object, the synagogue, for believers is directly linked to the construction of the Jewish community, where at the same level we can find mikve for ritual purrification. The second object, the Jewish community, offers two business units in the first floor. The important part of the Jewish community is education, and therefore the design of the Jewish community also contains a library and a clasroom connected to this library. The administration itself is located on the private last floor with a terrace. A third building, a community center, has been created to make the public familiar with the Jewish community, its religion and culture. The first floor is used by the kosher restaurant, which can use the central space between the park landscaping for sitting. The Community Center provides a lecture hall on the second floor and a spacious gallery for Jewish artists on the third floor.

This thesis examines three genres of the oral heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho, Kurdistan: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative, and the folktale. During the past three decades, there has been a renewed interest in research on Neo-Aramaic, and a substantial growth of research in the field has been seen. However, the contemporary study of Neo-Aramaic has been focused almost exclusively on linguistic description and analysis. Content-based aspects of the study of the language and its cultures have received very little attention. This thesis is a first step towards filling this gap. The introduction to the thesis provides background information about the Jewish community of Zakho and about the Neo-Aramaic subgroup to which the Jewish Zakho dialect belongs, North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). It then gives a brief review of relevant aspects of the study of folklore, before providing a description of the database of audio recordings upon which this thesis is based. The first chapter presents several approaches to the study of the proverb (paremiology). It is argued that an important component for the understanding and analysis of proverbs, one that is often overlooked, is the context of each proverb. The second chapter analyses an example of the genre of enriched biblical narrative through the lens of a concept taken from the field of thematology: the motifeme - a small meaning-bearing contextual-structural unit of the narrative. It demonstrates the non-linear historical development of the sequence of motifemes in the narrative analysed here, a feature which is particularly typical of Jewish narratives. The folktale is a genre central to the formation and maintenance of the Jewish Zakho communal identity, and the third chapter contains a detailed analysis of one particular folktale. The folktale chosen for analysis in this chapter features a cross-culturally uncommon motif: the motif of magical gender transformation. The NENA materials contained in this thesis are transcribed and translated into English. They are drawn from a database of recordings of members of the Zakho community living now mainly in Jerusalem, and were collected in the course of fieldwork undertaken by the author.

Magistro darbe nagrinėjama nevyriausybinių organizacijų įtaka demokratijai remiantis pilietinės visuomenės, mažumų ir Lietuvos žydų bendruomenės analize. Atliktas nestruktūrizuotas ir pusiau standartizuotas interviu. Kokybinio tyrimo duomenys apdorojami ir suskirstomi į 4 interpretuotinas kategorijas bei į 17 interpretuotinų subkategorijų pagal interviu metu užduotus klausimus. Atlikta Lietuvos žydų bendruomenės veiklos ir tikslų analizė nagrinėjant demokratijos, pilietinės visuomenės, nevyriausybinių organizacijų ir mažumų koncepcijas. Iškeltos tyrimo hipotezės visiškai pasitvirtino. Nevyriausybinių organizacijų teigiama įtaka demokratijai suprantama, aktualizuojama tik pačių nevyriausybinių organizacijų ir jų narių. Nevyriausybinėms organizacijoms ypač aktualus valstybės, valstybės atstovų palaikymas, pagarba, tačiau iš valstybės pusės tai vyksta tik parodomuoju būdu, tik paviršutiniškai. Nevyriausybinės organizacijos sąlygoja pilietinės visuomenės galią, tuo atveju pastaroji stiprina mažumų lygiateisiškumą bei visuotinę toleranciją. / Influence of non-governmental organizations’ to democracy with reference to social society, minorities and The Jewish Community of Lithuania are analyzed in this Master’s work. Non-structural and half-standardized interviews were done. For the processing of qualitative data were using 4 interpretative categories and 17 interpretative sub-categories, grouped by questions of interview questionnaire. Also analysis of The Jewish Community’s of Lithuania work and purposes was done researching concepts of democracy, social society, non-governmental organizations and minorities. Held hypotheses proved out absolutely. Positive influence of non-governmental organizations to democracy is understood and important only for non-governmental organizations and their members. Support, respect, regard of state and its representatives is especially relevant to non-governmental organizations, but it comes from the polity only passingly. Non-governmental organizations determines power of social society, in that case the latter strengthens equality of minorities and general tolerance.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Ann M. Pearman, committee chair; Candace L. Kemp, Elisabeth O. Burgess, committee members. Title from file title page. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 4, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103).

This thesis deal with the life of Jewish Community in Vienna after Second World War to the present days. This work describes most important aspects of daily and cultural Jewish life in Vienna these days. As an introduction to the topic is described the relevant political history of Austria for example Borodajkewycz affair or Causa Waldheim. Included is also the theme of overcoming the past in Austria and the theme of anti - Semitism in this country. In the first part of this work is given a historical overview of the development of the Jewish community in Vienna after the Second World War to present days. The second part of the work deal with the main Jewish institutions, organizations and associations in present Vienna. The theme of Jewish cultural life and leisure time activities are also included. A part of this thesis is also a brief summary about the possibilities of using this theme in education at Czechs schools.

The diploma thesis was prepared as an architectural study. The theme of diploma thesis is the design of new synagogue with Jewish community center in Olomouc. The part of the work is the creation of Jewish community center, synagogue, museum of Jewish culture and kosher restaurant. The plot is on the site of a synagogue that was burned by the Nazis in 1939.

The subject of the diploma thesis was the elaboration of an architectural study of the new synagogue in Jihlava in the newly reconstructed park with the monument of Gustav Mahler. The assignment was the design of a new synagogue, premises for a Kosher restaurant and a Jewish community building. All functions are the subject of a solution on a relatively small built-up area in the place of the original burned Jihlava synagogue. The basis of the proposal was to create a dialogue between two buildings of the synagogue and the Jewish community. Between these two objects is located a kosher restaurant as a connecting element. It infill the gap site - moat and at the same time connects the space between the objects using the park on its roof. Buildings of the Jewish community and restaurant are connected by an underground car park with arrival from the south. The proposal consists of three buildings with separate functions. In the synagogue is a prayer hall with a female gallery, sanitary facilities and mikveh. The restaurant building is designed in the style of a separate kosher kitchen. The Jewish community provides administrative facilities, community facilities, teaching facilities, a registry room, a small community library, and an small apartment of property administrator.

Diploma thesis deal with an architectural study of the New Synagogue in the city of Trutnov. The main aim of the thesis is the design the synagogue with the base of the Jewish community, a museum of a small size, a kosher restaurant and a mikvah for a religious ceremony. The main idea was to design a space used by members of the Jewish community in Trutnov. The synagogue is placed on the site of the former synagogue. The whole complex is divided into two objects. In the front part of the plot, there is an object set in the terrain, in which there is placed a stacker for cars, technical facilities, kosher restaurant, facilities of the Jewish community and museum. In the upper part of the plot there is a synagogue decorated by orthodox elements, beneath the synagogue is located the prayer hall with a mikveh rooms and technical facilities. Both buildings are integrated into the landcaping park. The layout of the buildings on the plot is designed to create a comprehensive environment, which is divided according to the individual operations serving the Jewish community and the public.

The diploma project is an elaborate design of a synagogue including associated facilities for the Jewish population in Trutnov. The proposition is designed in the phase of architectural study. The location of the proposal is placed near the historic centre of Trutnov. The intention of the proposal was to respect the conditions of the surroundings and relations with the environment and at the same time provide the Jewish population with representative and sufficiently sized spaces for their activities. The main building also provides an opportunity for chance encounters between the Jewish population and the public, thus indirectly contributing to the growth of the Jewish community and awareness of Judaism as such. The main building is a three-storey building placed in the terrain so that it forms natural "stairs" in the slope of the hill. The roofs of the building also serve as walking terraces, which ensure the accessibility and walkability of the plot. In the basement there are garages, the 1st floor contains a kosher restaurant and space for co-working. On the last floor, a mikveh, a space for the administration of the Jewish community and an archive of Jewish literature are designed. The second designed building is a newly designed synagogue, which stands on the site of the old synagogue. The original synagogue was burned out during Crystal night. The design pays respect to the original synagogue by including the floor plan of it in the paving pattern.

This architectural study concerns designing a new synagogue in the city of Frýdek-Místek. In 1939, the original synagogue was burned down and subsequently demolished. The venue is currently known only from historical map records. Besides designing the new synagogue, the construction program also includes a kosher restaurant, an administrative space for the Jewish community, and a ritual bath Mikveh. The developed concept for the new estate is based on the functional needs of the individual parts and the estate's historical context. The design for the synagogue itself is based on Jewish history, culture, and symbolism.