Resplendent Synagogue
Subtitle: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781584652168
Subjects: Jewish studies; Judaism; Religious Buildings; Social history; Worship; c 1700 to c 1800; International Architecture - European; Building, Wooden; Architecture; Synagogue architecture; Religion; Poland; Ukraine; Judaism - General; History - General; Religion / Judaism / General; Architecture, Polish; 18th century; Gvozdets
First sentence: Gwozdziec (pronounced Gov-vosz-djets) was a small but relatively prosperous trading center located on the southeastern edge of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in what is now part of western Ukraine (fig.2).