Andrea Strongwater discusses & signs LOST SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE

Please join us here at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side in welcoming Andrea Strongwater for a discussion and signing of LOST SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE: PAINTINGS AND HISTORIES. A purchase of LOST SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE  from Barnes & Noble Upper West Side is required to join the signing line at this event. Please call ahead and speak to a bookseller and reserve your copy.

Lost Synagogues of Europe chronicles and recreates in vivid color paintings the life stories of nearly 80 majestic--and destroyed--European synagogues, each one a testament to the approximately 17,000 synagogues decimated during the Third Reich and early takeover of the Communist regimes. After World War II only about 3,300 buildings remained standing, and just more than 700 are still in use as synagogues. This exquisite and significant work of historical preservation collects, organizes, and documents their stories.

Andrea Strongwater is an author and artist whose artwork has been shown worldwide, including in the collections of the University Medical Center of Princeton, the Herbert F Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and the Georges Cziffra Foundation in Senlis, France. Her Jewish art additionally decorates the interior of Or Hadash Synagogue in Atlanta. Images from more than one hundred of her synagogue paintings have been sold as prints, postcards, and notecards at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and the Shoah Memorial in Paris. She is also the illustrator of three children’s books, Princess Ingeborg and the Dragons, I Don’t Know – Adventures of a Forest Playground, and Cuffy’s New York City Adventure. The forerunner to this present volume, the children’s book Where We Once Gathered – Lost Synagogues of Europe, which she wrote and illustrated, won two independent publishers awards.