Samuel D. Gruber
By Samuel D. Gruber
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The Schmooze How the Eldridge Street Synagogue Was Saved
Crossposted From Samuel Guber’s Jewish Art & Monuments Beyond the Facade: A Synagogue, A Restoration, A Legacy: The Museum at Eldridge Street By Roberta Brandes Gratz, Larry Bortniker and Bonnie Dimun Museum at Eldridge Street and Scala Publishers, 176 pages, $45.00 In “Beyond the Facade,” a history of the almost 30-year effort to restore New…
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The Schmooze Romania’s Franz Josef Synagogue To Be Restored
Crossposted from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments My sister Ruth Ellen Gruber recently reported on her Jewish Heritage Travel blog that our ancestral synagogue in Radauti, Romania is under restoration. The process appears to be proceeding quickly — a rare occurrence in Romania, where the Jewish community is overwhelmed with care for so many…
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The Schmooze Historic Mississippi Synagogue Now a Museum
Crossposted from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments Twenty years ago I had the pleasure of visiting the small but lovely Temple B’nai Sholom in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Even then there were few Jews left in the town to use the synagogue, built in 1896. Still, it was well maintained, and could still serve the community…
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The Schmooze Ulysses S. Grant’s Washington Synagogue
Crossposted from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments On a few previous occasions I have mentioned visits of heads of state to synagogues. One of the most significant such occasions in American history was the visit 135 years ago of President Ulysses S. Grant to the dedication of the new synagogue in the national capital…
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The Schmooze Jean-Jacques Duval’s Connecticut Synagogue Stained Glass Still Dazzles After 50 Years
Crossposted from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments In 2009 I wrote an article for Tablet Magazine about Abstract Expressionist artist Adolph Gottlieb’s stained glass windows in the Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn (this article has just been republished, without slide show, in a special Shavuot synagogue issue of The New York Jewish Week). I…
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The Schmooze Two Views of Egypt’s Jewish Past
Crossposted From Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments I am indebted to the blog Point of No Return for links to two articles about (formerly) Jewish Egypt. The first, an article from Al-Ahram online, takes a tour of the Haret El-Yehud, what was once Cairo’s “Jewish Alley,” a site of Jewish habitation for centuries. It…
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The Schmooze Surveying the Jewish Remains of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Courtesy of Samuel D. Gruber/US Commission for Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad Crossposted from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments I am pleased to report the release by the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad of a report on the survey of “Jewish Heritage Sites of Bosnia-Herzegovina.” The survey of over 60…
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The Schmooze ‘Baroque Synagogues’ at Prague Jewish Museum
Exhibition curator Arno Pařík in the restored synagogue in Boskovice, Moravia. Photo by Samuel Gruber. Crossposted from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments The Jewish Museum in Prague has opened the exhibition “Barokní synagogy v českých zemích” (“Baroque synagogues in Czech Lands”) curated by Arno Pařík. The exhibtion is at the Robert Guttmann Gallery, and…
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