American Synagogues A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community

Gruber, Samuel D.

Monograph

Rizzoli

2003

60-67

int and ext photos;

that Hollywood should provide models for synagogues is not as strange as ir seems. First, many architects of synagogues, such as S. Tilden Norton, were also designing lavish movie palaces of the sort that were springing up across the country. It was the movie palace that inherited the Moorish Style that had been prevalent in synagogues in the late ninetennth century." (p. 67)

1032