Book details: BATE HA-KENESET BE-HUNGARYAH: ALBOM = MAGYARORSZA´GI ZSINAGO´GAK ALBUMA = THE SYNAGOGUES OF HUNGARY: AN ALBUM
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Braham, Randolph L. ; Imre Heller; Zsigmond Vajda
BATE HA-KENESET BE-HUNGARYAH: ALBOM = MAGYARORSZA´GI ZSINAGO´GAK ALBUMA = THE SYNAGOGUES OF HUNGARY: AN ALBUM
Imprint: New York; World Federation Of Hungarian Jews, 1968
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Original calf. 4to. X, 197, XXXI pages. 22 x 30 cm. In English, Hebrew, and Hungarian. Edited by Randolph L. Braham with the collaboration of Ervin Farkas. Braham’s own copy, specially bound (in black leather and gilt title) and dedicated to Randolph L. Braham from the World Federation of Hungarian Jews (with dedication plate on endpage) . Profusely illustrated album of black and white photographs of Hungarian synagogues. "This album includes 467 photographs and drawings. The compilers succeeded in obtaining illustrations of most of the destroyed or converted synagogues. … We hope this work will serve as an everlasting memorial to a significant element of Hungarian-Jewish culture and as a tribute to the thousands of martyrs who left from these very synagogues on their last fateful journey to destruction. ” (From the preface) . Subjects: Synagogues - Hungary. Edificios Religiosos (Arquitetura) Synagogues. Hungary. Light shelf wear to leather, overall very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (BRAHAM-1-43)
Stock number:33988.