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Mapping Jews: Cartography And Topography In Rome's Ghetto, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Mapping Jews: Cartography And Topography In Rome's Ghetto, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
This paper examines how the Ghetto of Rome was represented in the many view-plans and maps of Rome from the 16th through 18th centuries, and how this mapping both tells us much about the physical appearance of the Ghetto and also how it was perceived by others in particular and presented to others more generally.
In Memoriam: Kazimierz Macciej Piechotka (1919-2010), Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
In Memoriam: Kazimierz Macciej Piechotka (1919-2010), Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Remembering the life and work of Polish architect and architectural historian Kazimierz Maciej Piechotka who with his wife Maria reintroduced the world to the marvels of Polish wooden and masonry synagogues in a series of important books and articles beginning Boznice Drewniane (1957) published in English as Wooden Synagogues in 1959. Piechotka, who fought in the Warsaw uprising and spent eight months in a German prisoner of war camp, was also an accomplished architect.
Synagogues, Europe: Medieval To Eighteenth Century, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Synagogues, Europe: Medieval To Eighteenth Century, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
No abstract provided.
Synagogues: Twentieth Century, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Synagogues: Twentieth Century, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
No abstract provided.
Arnold W. Brunner And The New Classical Synagogue In America, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Arnold W. Brunner And The New Classical Synagogue In America, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Arnold W. Brunner (1857–1925), Albert Kahn (1869–1942), and other Jewish architects played an important role in reviving the classical style for American synagogue design at the turn of the twentieth century, putting their stamp on American Jewish identity and American architecture. The American-born Brunner was the preferred architect of New York’s Jewish establishment from the 1880s until his death. He adopted the classical style with his third New York synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel, dedicated in 1897, and then championed the style in his extensive public writing about synagogue design. The classical style was subsequently widely accepted nationally by Reform congregations, …
Jewish Identity In Modern Synagogue Architecture, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Jewish Identity In Modern Synagogue Architecture, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
examines the way in which Jewish identity is expressed in the architecture of modern synagogues and other Jewish-purpose buildings, and also how these very buildings help shape contemproary Jewish identity.
Monumenti Storici Ebraici In Europa, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Monumenti Storici Ebraici In Europa, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Reviews ten years in the developing field of historic preservation of Jewish monuments, focusing on projects in Europe, including those of the Jewish Heritage Program of the World Monuments Fund.
Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues By Robert Lyons, Exhibition Essay, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues By Robert Lyons, Exhibition Essay, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
No abstract provided.
The Future Of Jewish Monuments, Exhibition Essay, The Joseph Gallery, Hebrew Union College, New York,, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
The Future Of Jewish Monuments, Exhibition Essay, The Joseph Gallery, Hebrew Union College, New York,, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
No abstract provided.