Beschreibung:
Thomas C. Hubka is professor emeritus in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 2006 he received the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Henry Glassie Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievement. His most recent book is How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940.
"A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue. Thomas C. Hubka immersed himself in medieval and early-modern Jewish history, religion, and culture to prepare for this remarkable study of the 18th-century Polish wooden synagogue in the town of Gwoâzdziec, now in present Ukraine"