Resplendent Synagogue represents the traditional wooden synagogues of eighteenth-century Polish Jewry, and delves in magnificent detail not merely into the architecture of the structure but also into the architecture of the community and the influences on the structure by the worshipers who davened there—and the influences of the structure in turn upon the worshipers by the nature of the edifice.
Sergey Kravtsov
Dr. Sergey R. Kravtsov is a Research Fellow at the Center for Jewish Art, at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, he was trained as an architect at the LvivPolytechnic University. He received his doctoral degree in architectural history from theInstitute for the Theory and History of Architecture in Moscow in 1993, and moved toIsrael in 1994. He has published about 60 essays on history of urban planning andsynagogue architecture; he has authored and co-authored three …