The Byzantine Synagogue of Alfred Alschuler
Abstract The architect Alfred Alschuler, a prolific designer of commercial and industrial buildings in the Chicago area, also built several synagogues before his most significant creation, Temple Isaiah, now the home of the Kehilath Anshe Ma’ariv Isaiah Israel congregation. Completed in 1924, it mar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Images
Year: 2018, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-42 |
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| Summary: | Abstract The architect Alfred Alschuler, a prolific designer of commercial and industrial buildings in the Chicago area, also built several synagogues before his most significant creation, Temple Isaiah, now the home of the Kehilath Anshe Ma’ariv Isaiah Israel congregation. Completed in 1924, it marked a departure from Alschuler’s earlier classical synagogues and was Inspired, he wrote, by a synagogue at Hammat Tiberias in Palestine that Nahum Slouschz excavated under the auspices of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society. Accordingly, Alschuler switched to Byzantine models and copied details of the late antique ornament uncovered by Slouschz. Though such historical references to Palestine, the architect and the Rabbi of Temple Isaiah, Joseph Schultz, sought to connect their synagogue to Eretz Israel. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-8000 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Images
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18718000-12340095 |