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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings
For nearly two millennia, from the year 70 until the founding of
Israel in 1948, the Jewish people were without a homeland. But
wherever they wandered in the great Diaspora they continued the
tradition of building synagogues as refuge for their beliefs and
testament to their strength and accomplishments as a people. And "I
Shall Dwell Among Them" considers the spiritual, architectural and
cultural significance of these structures. It is the first study to
document the synagogues with both scholarly depth and photographic
excellence. "Among the phenomena Neil Folberg detected in his
search for historic synagogues was that wherever Jews
settled--whether in Morocco, Hungary or the American South--the
designs of their temples reflected the prevailing style of the
environment. But it is the building's power to evoke spirituality
that comes across most forcefully in his photographs."
--"New York Magazine"
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