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Windhoek Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Windhoek, Namibia, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
My 90 years.
No full textdigitizedHerbert Morawetz was born 1915 in Prague, then Austria-Hungary. He escaped the German occupation in 1939, emigrating to Canada via France and England. He studied to become a chemical engineer before immigrating to the United States in 1945, where he eventually joined academia
Memoirs of an old doctor : Autobiography of Alfred Sternthal 1862-1936
No full textEnglish translation of a German autobiography by the author's great-grandsonChildhood in Koethen (Anhalt) and Leipzig; father emigrated to USA in 1879; university studies in Leipzig; dermatologist in Braunschweig; contact with Paul Ehrlich; persecution under Nazi rule.digitizedAlfred Sternthal (Koethen 1862 - Chicago 1942) was a dermatologist in Braunschweig. He was a delegate for the Braunschweig government at many medical congresses. He emigrated to the USA in 1936.The original manuscript is in the LBI's memoir collection, ME 63
[Photograph of Moses sculpture].
No full textPhotograph of the Moses sculpture in front of the former site of the mikveh in Rotenburg an der Fulda.Processed for digitizatio
Windhoek Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Windhoek, Namibia, Interior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia