A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The cited information was published by Oxford University Press, 1999. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. [http://www.oxfordreference.com/views] The author/originator was Louis Jacobs.
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ARCHITECTURE
From the earliest times Jews were influenced by the various architectural styles used by the surrounding peoples, so that no specifically Jewish architectural style ever developed. But Jewish teaching has always been in favour of sound buiu