Documentation of Sub-Saharan Africa Synagogues

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Jay Waronker Continues Documentation of Sub-Saharan Africa Synagogues

(ISJM News) American Architect Jay Waronker, who documented synagogues in India in the 1990s, will be in East Africa this summer (2008) continuing his documentation of the synagogue architecture of Sub-Saharan Africa begun with a Fulbright grant in 2006. A trained architect, Waronker is especially known for his highly detailed by evocative watercolor paintings of Indian Synagogues which have been
exhibited widely. His choice to supplement more conventional means of building documentation with paintings links him to a long traditional of architectural illustrators who have recorded synagogue architecture since the 17th century. This summer's work is supported by a grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.

Waronker also helped organize the permanent exhibition in the recently restored former synagogue of Chennamangalam (Kerala), India. This summer Waronker will be working in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. His account of the 1926 Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Maputo Mozambique can be read on-line at: http://www.kulanu.org/mozambique/maputo.html

To help sponsor Prof. Waronker's African synagogue documentation project contact ISJM or send tax-deductible contribution to ISJM, Box 201, 118 Julian Place, Syracuse, NY, 13210. Wrtie "Waronket" in the memo line.

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