Barry Stiefel: 5 books

Book cover of The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945-2005
by Barry Stiefel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006

After the end of World War II, Americans across the United States began a mass migration from the urban centers to suburbia. Entire neighborhoods transplanted themselves. The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945 "2005 provides a pictorial history of the Detroit Jewish community's transition from the...
Book cover of The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou
by Emily Ford, Barry Stiefel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012

The early days of Louisiana settlement brought with them a clandestine group of Jewish pioneers. Isaac Monsanto and other traders spited the rarely enforced Code Noir banning their occupancy, but it wasn't until the Louisiana Purchase that larger numbers colonized the area. Immigrants like the Sartorius...
Book cover of Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World

A Social and Architectural History

by Barry L. Stiefel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a blend of cultural and architectural history that examines Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis...
Book cover of Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730
by Barry L. Stiefel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.
Book cover of Sustainable Heritage

Sustainable Heritage

Merging Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation

by Amalia Leifeste, Barry L. Stiefel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

This book brings together ecological-conservation theory and heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple movements within preservation and sustainable-design...
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