Jarmulowsky Bank Building

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…

In 1910, some four thousand Jews lived in the shtetl of Pavolitsh (Ukr.: Pavoloch). Despite its small size, the community boasted a substantial synagogue. Its plain exterior, however, gave little hint…

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…

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…

Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as an agricultural settlement in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from Romania. A year later, it became the beneficiary of philanthropist Baron…