Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning by Carol Herselle Krinsky

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Superbly illustrated views from antiquity to modern times accompany concise profiles of synagogues across the continent, including Cracow's Old Synagogue, the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, and Vienna's Tempelgasse. 253 illustrations.

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"Krinsky divides her subject into two parts. The first begins with a definition of the synagogue,differentiated conceptually,functionally and architecturally from churches and mosques, and esurveys the history of synagogue archirecture from antiquity to modern times. The second part describes in detail important individual synagogues that illustrate the concepts introduced earlier." Book Jacket.

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