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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…
Nahalat Binyamin Street was the longest road in the city during Tel Aviv’s earliest years. In the 1920s, it was paved and became Tel Aviv’s main commercial street. Over the next few decades, new…
The hotels designed by Morris Lapidus in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Fontainebleau, were pioneers of what came to be known as “Miami Modern” (MiMo), the signature style of resort hotels in…
In this photograph, David Goldblatt captured a Black family newly arrived in Johannesburg, looking small and vulnerable as they pass the tall pole of a streetlamp, with massive buildings looming…
In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…
Though construction ended in 1888 after eight years, the neo-Byzantine and Moorish revival Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg was not consecrated until 1893. The grand, imposing building, which…
The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…
The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
The Linnaeusstraat synagogue was built in the expressionist style of the Amsterdam School, a movement that flourished from 1910 to about 1930, which favored brick construction and copious decoration…
Architect Ignaz Reiser won a contest to design this ceremonial hall for the New Jewish Cemetery in Vienna. Construction began there in 1926. The most prominent feature of the building was its dome, an…
