Pavoloch Torah Ark

When the Dodge Brothers expanded into full-scale automobile manufacturing on a new campus in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1910, Albert Kahn designed some of the buildings in what was then a state-of-the…

In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead) society was created in Jaffa by members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) as a planned “Hebrew” community, designed in accordance with the latest…

The august synagogue in Mainz, erected on Hindenburgstrasse in 1911–1912, included a central, circular nave with an organ, a large dome, and side wings housing a weekday synagogue, community rooms…

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…

Sender Jarmulowsky’s towering twelve-story Beaux Arts bank branch was located at 54–58 Canal Street on New York’s Lower East Side. When it was built, it was the tallest building in the neighborhood…

In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…