Fortifications and the Synagogue: Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo - Hardcover

Lambert, Phyllis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297833391 ISBN 13: 9780297833390

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

Phyllis Lambert is an internationally known architect and founder and director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

From the Inside Flap

The Ben Ezra Synagogue, in Cairo, is best known as the synogogue in which the 'Cairo Geniza' was found an astonishingly rich store of ancient books, manuscripts, correspondences, and records dating back to the tenth century. Copiously illustrated with plans, engravings, and photographs, "Fortifications and the Synagogue" describes the recent restoration of this ancient synagogue, as well as the historical and archaeological research essential to its preservation and to an understanding of the religious communities that founded modern Cairo. The work is unprecedented in its comprehensive examination of the subject, presenting the first measured survey and photographic study of the fortress and synagogue, the first thorough study of the Geniza manuscripts, and a complete history of the synagogue from the Geniza period to the present."

Edition details

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0297833391
• ISBN 13: 9780297833390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240