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International Survey of Jewish Monuments
A non-profit organization dedicated to the research, preservation and documentation of Jewish historical monuments from around the world. Newsletter, monuments information by country.
www.isjm.org
Preserving Jewish Heritage in Greece
An illustrated article by Elias V. Messinas in Archaeology on the history of Greek synagogues and the need to preserve these remnants of an ancient tradition.
www.archaeology.org
The newsletter of the Jewish monuments of Greece, for the study and preservation of the Jewish sites of Greece. Includes a gazetteer of sites.
www.yvelia.com
The Synagogue of Casale Monferrato (Italy)
An illustrated history of this ornate synagogue built in 1595 from Italya.
www.italya.net
Etz-Hayyim Synagogue of Hania, Crete, Greece
The official site of this restored synagogue includes a history, description and plan, together with an illustrated account of the reconstruction.
www.etz-hayyim-hania.org
The official site includes a history and photographs of the building, which was completed in 1921 and designed by Baltimore architect Joseph Evans Sperry in a Byzantine-Moorish style.
www.bethambaltimore.org
JewishEncyclopedia.com: Synagogue Architecture
Joseph Jacobs and A. W. Brunner discuss the origins, development and stylistic influences of synagogue buildings from Hellenic times onwards, with illustrations.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com
Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The institute explains its projects, including the documentation of endangered architecture. Index of Jewish Art, including architecture of synagogues and Jewish monuments, with computer reconstructions. Events, newsletters, educational projects, faculty and staff.
www.hum.huji.ac.il
Beth Hatefutsoth online Museum of the Jewish People provides a photograph and history of this synagogue built in 1824-1825 to the Neo-Classical design of Joseph Kornhäusl.
www.bh.org.il
The Lost Synagogues of Detroit
Lowell Boileau's collection of images of former synagogues in a wide variety of styles, many now churches, and other Jewish buildings, with histories and recollections of them contributed by others.
www.atdetroit.com
Online exhibition from the National Museum of American Jewish History, featuring 61 American synagogues from 30 different states, with notes on their history.
www.nmajh.org
Frank Lloyd Wright: Beth Sholom Synagogue
J.H.Delmar provides photographs and Wright's own perspective drawing (1954) of this unusual structure intended as a "luminous Mount Sinai", together with commentary and bibliography.
www.delmars.com
On the First Cambridge Synagogue
Fran and Arny Schutzberg give a detailed history of the synagogue built in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1901 to the design of Nathan Douglas, now a condominium. Historic drawings of Temple Israel and Beth Israel.
home1.gte.net
An illustrated history by Gerard Fernandez of this Romanesque synagogue built 1927-9 and designed by Robert D. Kohn, Charles Butler, and Clarence Stein. Includes bibliography. Part of Medieval New York, by Fordham University.
www.fordham.edu
Restoration of Saint Petersburg's Grand Choral Synagogue
Brenda Miller supplies a photograph and history of this 19th-century synagogue in the Moorish style, with a note that its restoration started in 1998.
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