Beth Sholom Synagogue
Subtitle: Frank Lloyd Wright and modern religious architecture
By: Joseph M. Siry
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 705
ISBN-13: 9780226761404
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Jewish architecture; Synagogue architecture; Beth Sholom Synagogue (Elkins Park, Pa.); Synagoge; Synagogues
Description: This book examines the design, construction, and reception of Beth Sholom Synagogue, and its place in relation to Frank Lloyd Wright's other religious architecture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-693) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Unitarian views of Judaism, and Adler and Sullivan's synagogues --; title: Rev. William Norman Guthrie and Wright's steel cathedral --; title: Wright and the ideal theater to 1932 --; title: Annie M. Pfeiffer Chapel at Florida Southern College, 1938-41 : modernist theology and regional identity --; title: Community Christian Church, 1939-42 --; title: First Unitarian Society of Madison, 1946-52 --; title: Beth Sholom, Rabbi Mortimer Cohen, and postwar synagogue architecture --; title: Rabbi Cohen's vision and Wright's original design for Beth Sholom Synagogue --; title: Beth Sholom Synagogue : design development and construction --; title: Reception of Beth Sholom and its place in Wright's late work -- -- Epilogue; title: Beth Sholom Synagogue since 1959.