{"identifier":"ILL-FaithJud_6312231179112","browse_author":"Nonie Creagh-Brown (Director), Illuminations TV Ltd (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video)), John McCarthy (Screenplay by) and John Wyver (Screenplay by)","subscription_list":["bvl_visartssch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350918146,"description":"Judaism visits one of the earliest synagogues on the mountain fort of Masada, the Gothic Old-New Synagogue in Prague and nineteenth-century houses of worship in Budapest, Liverpool and New York, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s masterpiece, Beth Sholom, near Philadelphia. The origins of the synagogue \u2013 the Greek word for the Jewish house of prayer \u2013 are obscure, yet seemingly ancient. In the New Testament, the apostle James says, \u201cMoses has never lacked spokesmen in every town for generations past; he is read in the synagogues Sabbath by Sabbath.\u201d But the earliest identifiable synagogue buildings date only from around 70 CE, when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In the centuries since Jews have built synagogues \u2013 shuls in Yiddish \u2013 right across the Old World and the New, almost always employing variations of a singular layout but displaying an extraordinary eclecticism in decoration and detail. Who were the people who created these extraordinary buildings? Who offered their prayers and who read and studied the Torah in them? And who are the Jews who follow in those traditions today? Judaism explores synagogues in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Spain, the US, and the UK.. Presented by John McCarthy John Patrick McCarthy CBE is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the United Kingdom's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, where he was a prisoner for more than five years. Production, Anu Gopal, Yoni Smith; Writer and Producer, John Wyver; Director of Photography, Ian Serfontein; Editors, Jon Pinsky, Holly Lubbock Language - English","videoId":6312231179112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_visartssch","title":"Judaism","xml_source":"bvl_visartssch_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"ILL-FaithJud","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/7178df7a-aa04-4bf6-adbb-1750bcaf3d31/445c00da-2bba-4774-8030-31cfaec4b031/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_artOfFaith","facets":"documentaryFilm , Documentary film , judaism , Judaism , architecture , Architecture , beliefRitualsAndWorship , Belief, rituals and worship , heritageAndTradition , Heritage and tradition , mythsAndLegends , Myths and legends , identity , Identity , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , english , English , video , Video , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , anthropology , Anthropology , religion , Religion , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present ,","contenttypeorder":3,"series":"Art of Faith","date_of_publication":2008,"publisher":"Illuminations TV Ltd","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"ILL-FaithJud","facet":["anthropology","architecture","artsAndLiterature","beliefRitualsAndWorship","documentaryFilm","english","filmAndCinema","heritageAndTradition","identity","judaism","made_20002009","made_2000Present","mythsAndLegends","religion","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Nonie Creagh-Brown~Illuminations TV Ltd~John McCarthy~John Wyver"}