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The Church of St. Elizabeth, located in Bratislava (today in Slovakia), was designed by Ödön Lechner in the Hungarian Secession (art nouveau) style. It is called the Blue Church because of its blue…
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Ödön Lechner
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Bratislava, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1913
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This modern synagogue in Plauen (in the Saxony region) was one of the few synagogues built in Germany in the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Jews and non-Jews contributed funds…
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Fritz Landauer
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Plauen, Weimar Republic (Plauen, Germany)
Date:
1928–1930
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The minimalist aesthetic of the House of the Book, a chapel and conference hall, matches other buildings designed by Eisenshtat, a leading American synagogue architect. While he often favored…
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Sidney Eisenshtat
Places:
Brandeis, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
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George Boehm
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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Elizabeth Street 10b is a stunning example of the Jugendstil style for which the buildings designed by Mikhail Eisenstein are known. The façade of this apartment building is built of brown stone…
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Mikhail Eisenstein
Places:
Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1903