Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community Hubka Thomas C.
Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community Hubka Thomas C. This unique exploration of a lost religious and cultural artifact breathes new life into a…
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Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community Hubka Thomas C.
This unique exploration of a lost religious and cultural artifact breathes new life into a forgotten but fascinating aspect of eighteenth-century Polish Jewry.Thomas C. Because the Gwozdziec Synagogue, like so many others, was destroyed by the Nazis, this book revives a spiritual community lost to history. Hubka, an architectural historian, immersed himself in medieval and early modern Jewish history, religion, and culture to prepare for this remarkable study of the eighteenth-century Polish synagogue in the town of Gwozdziec, now in present-day Ukraine.
Graced with nearly two hundred historical photographs, architectural drawings, maps, diagrams, and color illustrations, Resplendent Synagogue vividly recreates the spiritual heart of a once-vibrant Jewish Hubka selected the Gwozdziec Synagogue because of the completeness of its photographic and historical records.