Ludwig Förster was a German-born Austro-Hungarian architect known especially for the synagogues and churches he designed. From 1842 to 1845 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, while running his own architect studio. The Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, the Synagogue of Miskolc, and the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna are considered his most important works. From 1861 to 1863 he served as a member of Vienna’s city council.
In late 1897, Camille Pissarro, the noted impressionist artist, known for his many landscapes and cityscapes, came to Paris and rented a room in the Hôtel du Louvre, which gave him a good view of the…
Menu for a banquet given in honor of District Grand Lodge No. 7, International Order of B’nai B’rith at the West End Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 11, 1886.
My grandfather, like so many others, came to Canada by steerage from Poland in 1900 and settled down not far from Main Street in what was to become a ghetto. Here, as in the real America, the…