A new web side elaborates the contribution of Jews and Jewish architects to the physical development of Budapest as a metropolis. A project of the OVAS! NGO, which focuses on the built heritage (and preserving that heritage) in Budapest’s downtown … continue reading →
The World Monuments Fund has mounted an online exhibition about the history and architecture of the striking, art nouveau synagogue in Subotica, Serbia, which has been undergoing fitful — and as yet incomplete — restoration for decades. With its … continue reading →
We posted the other day about restoration work on the exterior of the magnificent Neolog Synagogue in Szeged, Hungary…. In case you were wondering what this grandly opulent building, the masterpiece of the Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn, looks like … continue reading →
Work has begun in earnest on the restoration of the magnificent Neolog synagogue in Szeged, Hungary — the masterpiece of Lipot Baumhorn, pre-WW2 Europe’s most prolific synagogue architect. As we reported a year ago, the first stage of the … continue reading →
Somehow we feel that this report, which celebrates life and survival, is a fitting post for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day…. Restoration of the 200-year-old neoclassical synagogue in northern Budapest’s Obuda district has been completed, and the stately building … continue reading →
