Andrea Strongwater shines light on seventy-seven synagogues built from the early 1600s to 1930 and spanning sixteen European countries where destruction was rampant.
She lovingly illustrates their exteriors and/or interiors and tells stories of their history, Jewish community, and architectural significance. These synagogues were considered important enough to have been documented in their time, and so here they do double duty: reminding us of the many thousands of other synagagoues that were obliterated without having left any historical record.
“Andrea Strongwater’s paintings of European synagogues destroyed in the Holocaust allow us to connect emotionally with them—and, in that sense, bring them back to life for us. Her concomitant history of these synagogues broadens our understanding of these homes of Jewish living and thereby serves as new, important testimony to Jewish life lost in the flames of the Shoah.”–Vladimir Levin, director, Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andrea will discuss the history of these synagogues and also display some of her paintings of the buildings.
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