Koopje Neil Folberg – Folberg, Neil

Among the phenomena Neil Folberg detected in his search for historic synagogues was that wherever Jews settled–whether in Morocco, Hungary or the American South–the designs of their temples reflected the prevailing style of the environment. But it is the building’s power to evoke spirituality that comes across most forcefully in his photographs.
–“New York Magazine”
For nearly two millennia, from the year 70 until the founding of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people were without a homeland. But wherever they…