Lost Synagogues of Europe: Paintings and Histories

Andrea Strongwater is an author and artist whose artwork has been shown worldwide, including in the collections of the University Medical Center of Princeton, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Or Hadash Synagogue in Atlanta, and the Georges Cziffra Foundation in Senlis, France. Some of her paintings have been sold, and their images have also been sold as prints, postcards, and notecards at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, the Shoah Memorial in Paris, and to private collectors. The forerunner to this present volume is her award-winning children's book Where We Once Gathered: Lost Synagogues of Europe.
Ismar Schorsch is chancellor emeritus of and Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries and Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity.