Samuel D. Gruber 123 Clarke Street

Syracuse, New York 13210 Tel (+1 315) 762-2850 / email: samuelgruber@gmail.com

EDUCATION Ph.D. 1998 Columbia University, NY, NY, Dept. of Art History and Archeology M.Phil. 1993 Columbia University, NY, NY, Dept. of Art History and Archeology M.A. 1984 Columbia University, NY, NY, Dept. of Art History and Archeology

1981 Cornell University Summer Session, Rome, Italy

Surveying and Measured Drawing Program B.A. 1977 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Honors in Medieval Studies, 1977) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2017 Visting Associate Professor, Jewish Studies, Cornell University 2001– present Part-time faculty in Jewish Studies/History of Art, Syracuse University 2014 Part-time faculty, Honors Program, Lemoyne College 2013 Part-time instructor, College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University (summer session) 2013 Part-time instructor, Syracuse, University Honors Program, 2009 Lecturer in Art History, Cazenovia College 2003 Lecturer in Art and Art History, Colgate University 2002 Humanistic Studies Center, Syracuse University 2001 Humanistic Studies Center, Syracuse University 1996-1997 Rothman Visiting Lecturer in Judaic Studies, 1996 Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University 1995 Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Cornell University 1994 Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts, Syracuse University 1994 Guest Lecturer, Jewish Studies Program, SUNY Binghamton 1987-1989 Preceptor, Art Humanities Course, Columbia University 1987 Lecturer, Gruppo Archeologico Romano, Rome 1984-1986 Part-time faculty, Temple University Abroad, Rome Campus PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012- Director, Gruber Heritage Global

Consulting on cultural heritage issues for private clients. Recent projects: Historic Districts, City of Syracuse (2015-16), Cemetery restoration, Lithuania (2015-); Polish Art Collection, Lemoyne College (2015-); Educational Component, Lost Shul Mural Project, Burlington, VT (2015-); Online exhibits, College of Charleston (2014-); Religious Properties Survey, City of Syracuse (2014); Project development, Lost Shul Mural Project, Burlington, VT (2014); cultural resource survey for City of Syracuse (2013); historic furnishings

report for Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (2013). 2010-2012 Curator, Plastics Collection and Plastics Team Leader, the Library at

Syracuse University Gave order and purpose to a large diverse collection of books, manuscripts and objects on the history of plastics at Syracuse University. Work included: • coordinating all aspects of Plastics Collection, • accessioning and describing existing collections, • soliciting and accessioning new objects and manuscript collections, • preparing manuscript collection finding aides in EAD, • design of innovative website (plastics.syr.edu) (with Plastics Team) • research/writing of all metadata and written texts • coordinating plastics object photography • curating and installation of exhibition (Just One Word: Plastics), • design and installation of permanent exhibition (opens fall 2012) • working with professional/academic advisory committee • working with donors for funding and collections acquisition • outreach to faculty and students • outreach to plastic industry and media

1995-2009 Director, Jewish Heritage Research Center, Syracuse, NY

(a private consulting firm and information clearing house since 2008 part of Gruber Heritage Global, working with the US Commission for the

Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad; the Rothschild Foundation Europe; the World Monuments Fund (NY); and other clients)

Selected projects 2001-2009:

• Co-Cordinator of international seminar “Care, Conservation and

Maintenance of Historic Jewish Properties,” Bratislava, Slovakia (March 17-19, 2009).

• Research Director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad (see below) (www.heritageabroad.gov)

• Ongoing Consulting for American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (NY), Cahnman Foundation (NY), and others.

• Consulting work for the Rothschild Foundation, Europe, including: Briefing papers and project reviews

• Organization of international conference “The Future of Jewish Monuments in Europe” (Prague, April 24-27, 2004)

• (www.jewish-heritage europe.org/confer/prague04/papers.htm)

• Creation of competitive grant programs for Jewish museums and archives

• Creation of Jewish archives in Europe directory (2004)

• Editor of a webpage for “Jewish Heritage Europe” • (debuted fall 2007) (www.jewish-heritage-europe.org)

• Grant application reviews for World Monuments Fund § (www.wmf.org/jewish.html)

• Consultant to Jewish Community of Munich (Germany) for design of new

synagogue

• Project planning for Jewish Community of Belz and Municipality of Belz (Ukraine)

• Consultant to New York Landmarks Conservancy for survey of historic synagogues in New York City (www.nylandmarks.org/)

• Consulting work for the World Monuments Fund (see below)

• The State of Jewish Heritage in Europe: Creating a Future for the Past, a report prepared for the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation (London)

• Contribution to a Historic Structures Report for the first Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington, DC (now Small Museum), for Quinn Evans Architects (Washington)

• Expert witness report and deposition for Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman (New York) on behalf of Central Synagogue in legal proceedings related to 1998 synagogue fire

• Great Synagogues of Europe, research for a television documentary by the Jewish Television Network.

• Research and photography for two historic district nominations prepared by the Preservation Association of Central New York (Syracuse, NY)

1995-2008 Research Director, United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington, D.C.)

Responsibilities include:

• organization and oversight of surveys of historic Jewish and other sites of ethnic and religious minorities in the following countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and writing and publishing reports of surveys, overseeing compilation of a database of information based on surveys:

• Ukraine Jewish sites (1996-2001, rpt 2005) • Romania Jewish sites (1998-2002, rpt 2010)

• Lithuania Old Believer sites (2001-04, rpt 2005) • Lithuania Jewish & Holocaust sites (2001-04)

• Latvia Jewish sites (2001-05) • Bulgaria multi-ethnic sites (2001-06, rpts 2007) • Moldova Jewish Sites (2003-05, rpt 2010) • Bosnia Jewish & Holocaust sites (2004-06) • Estonia Jewish & Holocaust sites (begun 2004) • Poland Roma sites (2005-06, rpt 2007)

• research on the history, location, condition and potential of individual historic sites in Central and Eastern at the request of the Commission

• participation in fund raising activities for Commission

• writing of speeches, press releases, web-postings and other material

• preservation project planning and management, including:

• Pogrom Memorial in Kielce, Poland (2006) • Erection of Holocaust memorial markers in Estonia • Memorial design for Jasenovic Concentration/Death

Camp, Croatia • Cemetery conservation and monuments in Lithuania,

Poland and Ukraine • Restoration of synagogues (Bulgaria, Latvia, etc.) • Restoration at Jewish cemetery in Sarajevo, Bosnia

1995–2000 Jewish Heritage Program Consultant,

World Monuments Fund (New York):

Responsibilities similar to below, including (1995-2000) continuation of oversight of programs in progress, but with greater focus on management of the following specific preservation projects: Tempel Synagogue, Cracow, Poland; Etz Hayim Synagogue, Hania (Crete), Greece; Paradesi Synagogue, Cochin, India; Ibn Danan Synagogue, Fez, Morocco; Old Jewish Cemetery, Venice, Italy; and subsequently (since 1999) project reviews, fund raising advice, and other assistance to the program as needed.

1999–2000 Executive Director

Preservation Association of Central New York (part-time) Responsibilities included:

§administration of the organization §organization and oversight of advocacy, education & research efforts §outreach through public speaking and writing §grant writing and fund raising

1989-1995 Director, Jewish Heritage Council

World Monuments Fund

Responsibilities included creating and administering an international program for the documentation and preservation of historic Jewish sites and structures

worldwide. Specific tasks included overall administration and planning, fund raising, and writing grant and contract proposals (over 1.2 million dollars raised over five years). Projects completed or initiated in 1989-1994 included:

• -- organization and planning of an international conference, The Future of Jewish Monuments, with over thirty speakers from a dozen countries (17-19 November 1990).

• -- curating a traveling exhibition on the preservation of Jewish

monuments (opened in New York, November, 1990, traveling through February 1995 with stops in eight cities.

• -- organization and supervision on a multi-year inventory and survey

of Jewish sites in Central and Eastern Europe on behalf of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (begun March, 1991)

• -- organization of a preservation program for the Jewish catacombs in

Rome (completed 1996)

• -- organization and planning of an architectural and photographic survey of Jewish heritage in Morocco (completed autumn 1990, report published 1993, photograph archive completed 1995); and Syria (completed 1996)

• -- organization and planning of restoration of the Tempel Synagogue,

Krakow, Poland and the preparation of a list of preservation priorities for WMF.

• -- identification and selection of ten preservation priorities for the

Jewish Heritage Program of WMF, and development of a strategy for planning and funding these projects.

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS 2015 Appointed member, Lithuania Govt Commission on History and Culture of Lithuanian Jews 2014 Sawyer Seminar speaker, Carnegie Mellon University 2014 Jasena R. Foley Education Award from Preservation Association of Central New York 2009-2010 Research Grant, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation 2009 Grant for blog, webpage (via ISJM), Cahnman Foundation 2006-2007 Research Grant, James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation (project: Saving American Synagogues: A Preservation Manual) 2006-2007 Brunner Grant (Research), American Institute of Architects: New York Chapter (project: Arnold W: Brunner: Architect and Planner) 2006 NEH grant for NEH seminar “Shaping Civic Space in the

Renaissance City,” Venice, Italy 1987-1989 Preceptorship, Art Humanities Program, Columbia University 1986-1987 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Pre-doctoral Fellowship

in Art History 1986 Kress Foundation Fellowship in Art History (unable to accept) 1985 Research grant from the Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania and the University of L'Aquila 1985 Milton Lewine Summer Travel Grant, Dept. of Art History,

Columbia University 1981 Summer Travel Grant, Dept. of Art History, Columbia University 1977-1978 Teaching Fellowship, Athens College in Greece Projects organized and directed by Gruber have received grants from: American Express Foundation • David Berg Foundation • Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation • Charles and Andrea Bronfman Foundation • Cahnman Foundation • Central New York Community Foundation • Cotsen Family Foundation • European Union • Getty Grant Program • Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund • Horace Goldsmith Foundation • Gottesman Fund • Greenwald – Haupt Charitable Foundation • Hanadiv Charitable Foundation • The Headley Trust • International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) • Kronhill-Pletka Foundation • Mitrani Family Foundation • Samuel H. Kress Foundation • Ronald S. Lauder Foundation • Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation • Lucius N. Littauer Foundation • National Fund for Cracow Monuments • Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation • New york Landmarks Conservancy • Sam Pomeranz Foundation • Ann and Harry Reicher Foundation • Pforzheimer Foundation • Preservation League of New York State • Republic National Bank, NY • Rich Foundation • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund • Rosamund Gifford Charitable Fund • Rothschild Foundation • Spingold Foundation • United States Government • Yad Hanadiv and numerous private donors. EXHIBITIONS 2016 Curator: Synagogues of the South, Online Exhibit from the William Rosenthall Collection, College of Charleston (in progress) 2015 Co-Curator: The Life of the Synagogue, Online Exhibit from the William Rosenthall Collection, College of Charleston http://lifeofthesynagogue.library.cofc.edu/ 2011 Curator: Just One Word: Plastics (Syracuse Univ. Library, Sept 15, 2011 – Jan. 20, 2012) 2008 Co-curator: Before the Flame Goes Out, at Museum of Biblical Art 2005 Co-curator: Before the Flame Goes Out, at Westchester JCC 2004 Contributor (essay) to Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam (and traveling) 2004 Contributor to Jonathan Adler Re:Form, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art,

Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Dec 2004 – April 2005) 2001 Adviser (wrote text), The Restoration of Tempel Synagogue at WMF Gallery,

New York (September – November 2001) 2000 Co-sponsor (through ISJM) of Shirley Moskowitz: Synagogues & Cemeteries at the Jewish Cultural Center, Krakow (Poland) and traveling. 1997 Consultant and wrote brochure text for Urban Diaspora: Reclaiming Space

at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery at the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center (opened January 9, 1997 and traveling)

1996 Co-Curator (w/ Edward Aiken), Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues by Robert Lyons, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University (Sept. 13 - Oct. 11, 1996); Yeshiva University Museum, NY, (Sept 1997 – Jan., 1998); Klutznick

National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC (July – Oct. 1998). 1996 Contributor, Jews in Arab Lands (Ruth Porter, curator), Beth Hatefusoth, Tel

Aviv. 1990 ff Curator, The Future of Jewish Monuments, a traveling exhibit organized for

the World Monuments Fund seen at ten venues nationwide 1989 Contributor, Gardens and Ghettos, the Art of Jewish Life in Italy, V. Mann,

curator), Jewish Museum, New York BLOGS AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT & MAINTENANCE 2010-2012 Syracuse University Plastics Collection (design & content) www.plastics.syr.edu 2008- Shirley Moskowitz 1921-2007: A Life in Art http://shirleymoskowitz.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/18/ (contributor) 2009- My Central New York http://mycentralnewyork.blogspot.com/ 2008- Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art and Monuments Blog

http://samgrubersjewishartmonuments.blogspot.com/ 2004-2011 Co-designer and content editor of website Jewish Heritage Europe

(launched in fall 2007) (re-launch of new site, December 2011) www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu

2002-2003 Assisted redesign and rewrite of website of U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad (www.heritageabroad.gov)

ARCHAEOLOGY 2011-12 Adviser to City of Cologne, Germany for Judengasse Excavation 2010 Consultant to Region of Murcia, Spain, for presentation of Lorca excavation 2006 - Steering Committee, Project Yesod, Ename Center for Public

Archeology and Heritage Presentation 1984-87 Architectural historian and site supervisor, San Vincenzo al Volturno,

Italy (early medieval monastery) 1972-80 Various excavations in Italy, Israel and the United States (details available) INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOURS (ORGANIZED & LED) 2009 Development of intensive Jewish Art Tours with Art Horizons

International (New York) 1994 One-week study tour of Jewish sites in Morocco for World Monuments Fund 1993 One-week study tour of Jewish sites of Poland for World Monuments Fund 1986 One-week study tour of Campania, Basilicata, & Apulia for Temple University 1986 One-week study tour of Tuscany the Veneto for Temple University 1985 One-week study tour of Campania & Sicily for Temple University 1985 One-week study tour of Umbria, Marche, and Veneto for Temple Univ. JURIES Jury for Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Downing Award for Excellence in Published

Architectural Surveys (1998); Jury for SAH international travel grants (2014) CENTRAL NEW YORK STATE COMMUNITY SERVICE (selected) Gustav Stickley House Committee, Syracuse (present) Save 711 East Fayette Committee, Syracuse (2013-present) Fort Ontario National Historic Park Committee, Oswego (present) Preservation Association of Central New York (Board 1996-2012, President, 2004-2009) Freedom Trail Signage Project (initiator, co-director) Historic Preservation Projects include: Babcock-Shattuck House (restored), Syracuse, Holy

Trinity Church (adaptive reuse), Syracuse , Harriet May Mills House, Syracuse (adaptive reuse); Samuel Forman House, Syracuse (saved)

Westcott Neighborhood Association, Syracuse (1996-present) including: Walking tours, website 2013-present); House tours (2000-2005); Renaissance Plan (1996-98)

Community Development Advisory Committee, Syracuse SELECTED PRO BONO ADVISING (1987-present) Includes pro bono and informal advising, project reviews, endorsements, etc. on an as needed basis (partial list):

Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (New York, NY); Center for the Documentation of Places of Worship in Minnesota; Eldridge Street Project (New York, NY); Erie Canal Museum (Syracuse, NY); Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities; Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (Warsaw, Poland); Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (Washington, DC); Kremenets Jewish Cemetery Restoration Project (Kremenets, Ukraine); Littman Library; Lower East Side Conservancy (New York, NY); MOBIA (New York, NY); Municipal Arts Society (New York, NY); Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (Jackson, MS); New York Landmarks Conservancy (New York, NY); Partners for Sacred Places (Philadelphia, PA); Polish Jewish Cemetery Restoration Committee; Preservation Association of Central New York (Syracuse, NY); Project Yesod, Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation (Belgium); Rothschild Foundation (UK); Stone Avenue Temple (Tucson, Arizona); University Synagogue (Irvine, CA); Vilna Center (Boston, MA); Working Party on Jewish Monuments (London/Manchester, England)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS (Memberships & Service) American Alliance of Museums (AAM); Arts & Crafts society of Central New York; Association for Jewish Studies (AJS); College Art Association (CAA); Community Development Advisory Committee, City of Syracuse (2005-2007); Heritage Coalition of Central New York (Executive Committee member 1996- 2000); Historic Preservation Forum; International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA); International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM, President, 1997 - ); Municipal Art Society, NY (Committee on Historic and Cultural Landmarks, 1992-5); Morningside Heights Residents Association (Board member, co-chair Landmarks Committee 1990-95); National Trust for Historic Preservation; Partners for Sacred Places; Preservation Association of Central New York (PACNY, Co-chair Preservation Comm. 1996-98, president 9/04 - 1/2010); Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Society of the History of Technology (SHOT); Society of Architectural Historians (SAH); Society of Fellows American Academy in Rome (Central New York/Western Mass. Rep); University

Neighborhood Preservation Association (UNPA, Babcock-Shattuck House Comm.); Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF); Westcott Neighborhood Association (WNA), Syracuse (Board member 1996-98, 2001-05; Chair, Westcott Street Development Plan Committee 1995-97). PHOTOGRAPHY Architectural photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Houston Post, Preservation News, ArtNews, Metropolis Magazine, Jewish Heritage Report and many other publications. LANGUAGES Italian (speaking and reading); French, German and Latin (reading only) SPECIALIZED SKILLS & SOCIAL MEDIA Photography, Surveying and Measured Drawing, Word Processing (including Microsoft Excell, Adobe Photoshop), Websites & Blogs (blogspot, WordPress), Manuscript collection accessioning and preparation of finding aides (various software programs); Social media: Facebook, LinkedIn; Pinterest; Reddit; Wikipedia, etc. PUBLICATIONS [n.b. full texts or links to many publications can be found at http://works.bepress.com/samuel_gruber/ and https://syr.academia.edu/SamuelGruber] BOOKS AND PUBLISHED REPORTS Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Graves in Lithuania (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2015) Selected Protestant Historic Monuments and Sites in Bulgaria(editor), (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2013) Jewish Historic Monuments and Sites in Bulgaria (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2011) Just One Word: Plastics, 16 pp illustrated essay in conjunction with exhibition (Syracuse: Syracuse University Library, 2011). Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2011) Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Moldova (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2010) Historic Jewish Sites in Romania (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s

Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2010) Survey of Muslim Sites in Bulgaria (editor) (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2009) Survey of Roma Heritage Sites in Poland (editor) (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2009) Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2005) Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues and Monuments in Slovenia (co-author with Ruth E. Gruber) (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2005) American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and the Jewish Community (with Paul Rocheleau, photographer). (New York: Rizzoli, 2003) Sites Associated with the Lives and Deeds of foreign-born Heroes of the American Revolution (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2002) Synagogues (New York: Metrobooks, 1999) Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in the Czech Republic (co-author with Phyllis Myers), U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and World Monuments Fund, NY, 1995. Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Poland (co-author with Phyllis Myers), U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and World Monuments Fund, NY, 1994 (second revised edition, 1995). ARTICLES (does not include most articles & notes published in newspapers & newsletters or articles under contract, or in press) Full texts or links to many articles can be found at: http://works.bepress.com/samuel_gruber/ & https://syr.academia.edu/SamuelGruber Jewish Heritage Report, a Quarterly Publication of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments. Editor and writer, 1997 – 2000, ISJM Jewish Heritage E-Report (2007 - 2008), Samuel Gruber Jewish Art & Monuments Blog (2008 -), My Central New York Blog (2009 -) “The Venice Ghetto in Context: A Culture of Enclosure and Control,” chapter in W. Z. Goldman and J. Trotter, eds., The Ghetto in Global History, 1500 to the Present (Routledge, forthcoming)  

“Incremental Urbanism in Medieval Italy: the Example of Todi,” chapter in M. Abel, ed. Medieval Urban Planning: The Monastery and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars’ Press, forthcoming) “Modern Synagogues,” in Cambridge Encyclopedia of Religious Architecture (forthcoming, 2016) “Synagogues of the South: a Groundbreaking Online Exhibit,” The Rambler: The Newsletter of the Southern Jewish Historical Society 20:1 (winter 2016), p. 5

“Lone Star (of David): Story A ‘moving’ tale of a synagogue being trucked across Texas, Tablet Magazine (Dec. 24, 2014).

“Mapping Jews: Cartography and Topography in Rome’s Ghetto” in Ian Verstegen and Allan Ceen, eds., Giambattista Nolli and Rome: Mapping the City before and after the Pianta Grande (Rome, Italy: Studium Urbis, 2014). “The Hidden Treasure of Burlington, Vermont, ”The Forward (Jan. 24, 2014). “Selective Inclusion: Integration and Isolation of Jews in Medieval Italy,” in Framing Jewish Culture: Boundaries, Representations, and Exhibitions of Ethnic Difference, Jewish Cultural Studies, Vol 4 (2014). “The Plastics Collection,” nine essays about plastics online at http://plastics.syr.edu/page-essays.php “The Continuing Exodus: The Synagogue and Jewish Urban Migration,” Catalog essay in Silent Witnesses: Migration Stories Through Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned (Farmington Hills, MI, 2012), 14-19. “The Archaeology of Judaism,” in M. Carver, ed. The Archaeology of Medieval Europe vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries AD (Aarhus University Press, 2011), 312-316. “Jewish Religious Buildings,” in M. Carver, ed., The Archaeology of Medieval Europe vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries AD, (Aarhus University Press, 2011), 340-346. “Jewish Memorial Practice, in M. Carver, ed. The Archaeology of Medieval Europe vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries AD, (Aarhus University Press, 2011), 377-381. “Synagogues, Europe: Medieval to Eighteenth Century,” in Judith R. Baskin, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism & Jewish Culture (New York, 2011), 574-576. “Synagogues: Twentieth Century,” in Judith R. Baskin, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism & Jewish Culture (New York, 2011), 577-579. “Kazimiez Piechotka,” in Ars Judaica (March 2011) “Arnold W. Brunner and the New Classical Synagogue in America,” Jewish History Volume 25 (2011), Number 1, 69-102.

“Polish Influence on American synagogue architecture,” in J. Malinowski, R. Piatkowska and T. Sztyma-Knasieka, eds., Jewish Artists and Central-Eastern Europe: Art Center – Identity – Heritage from the 19th Century to the Second World War, (Warsaw: Polish Society of Oriental Art and Wydawnictwo DiG, 2010), 145-154. “Medieval Synagogues in the Mediterranean Region,” in Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies, eds., Jewish Architecture in Europe (Schriftenreihe der Bet Tfila Band 6) (Petersburg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010), 53- 65. “Paned Expressions: Though a bit tarnished, the Abstract Expressionist windows at Brooklyn’s Kingsway Jewish Center still glimmer,” Tablet Magazine: A New Read on Jewish Life (Oct., 14, 2009). “Original Intent: A student sukkah project harks back to architecture’s dawn,” Tablet Magazine: A New Read on Jewish Life (Oct. 2, 2009) "The Synagogues of Piedmont" chapter in Ebrei Piemontese Yeshiva University Museum (New York, 2008) “Rediscovering Modern Synagogues Before it is Too Late,” DOCOMOMO US (Fall 2007), p 4. “The New Abbey: the early medieval borgo and the twelfth-century monastery” (with W. Bowden), in K. Bowes, K. Francis and R. Hodges (eds.), Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavations in the Terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, London, British School at Rome, 2006) 135-186. “Summary Report on the Condition of Jewish Cemeteries in Latvia,” in Meyer Meler, Jewish Cemeteries in Latvia (Riga: Riga Jewish Community - Museum “Jewish in Latvia”, 2006), 133-134. “Jewish Identity in Modern Synagogue Architecture,” Essay in Angeli Sachs and Edward van Voolen, eds., Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture, (Prestel, 2004.), pp. 21-31. “Synagogues” for the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004) “European Preservation Projects of the World Monuments Fund’s Jewish Heritage Program: The Tempel Synagogue in Cracow (Poland) and the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hania (Crete),” in Max Polonovski, ed., Le Patrimonie Juif Européen: Actes du colloque international tenu à Paris, au Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, les 26, 27 et 28 janvier 1999 (Paris-Louvain – Dudley MA: Peters, 2002), 209-221. “Archaeological Remains of Ashkenazic Jewry in Europe: A New Source of Pride and History” in Leonard Rutgers, Ed., What Athens has to do with Jerusalem: Essays on classical, Jewish, and Early Christian Art and Archaeology in Honor of Gideon Foerster (Paris-Louvain – Dudley MA: Peters, 2002), 267-301. “Monumenti Storici Ebraici in Europa: Nuove Tendenze” in 1990-2000: Ebrei Europei Dieci ani dopo la fine del Socialismo Reale ed. By R.uth Ellen Gruber and Laura Quercioli Mincer, La Rassegna Mensile d'Israel Vol. LXVIII:1 (Jan-April 2002), 191-218. “Italian Synagogue Architecture and Italian Jewish Identity: The Example of Piedmont” in

The Most Ancient of Minorities; The Jews of Italy ed. by Stanislao G. Pugliese (Greenwood Press, Westport ,CT, 2002), 169-175. “Underground Railroad, Underpublicized Hero,” in (Syracuse) Post-Standard (Feb. 24, 2002). [Lead article in Sunday Opinion Section re 19th century Abolitionist Rev. Jermaine Loguen] “The Wrong Way to Protect the Jewish Past,” op-ed piece in The New York Times (July 3, 2001) "Syracuse Scores a Win," in Historic Preservation Forum News, 4:6 (July/August 1998), 4. “Restoration of Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hania,” Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies (21, winter 1997/1998). Preservation Priorities: Endangered Historic Jewish Sites. World Monuments Fund (New York, 1996). Jewish Monuments in Slovenia: A Report to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (co-author with Ruth Ellen Gruber). (November 1996). Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs of Syrian Synagogues by Robert Lyons, exhibition essay, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University (September, 1996). "Synagogues in Arab Lands," in Jews in Arab Lands, exhibition catalogue, Beth Hatefusoth. (Tel Aviv, 1996). "Shirley Moskowitz at Seventy-Five," exhibition catalogue essay in Shirley Moskowitz: a Half Century of Art (January 19-February 9, 1996). University of the Arts, Philadelphia. "American Synagogue Architecture," Common Bond (New York), 11:1 (May 1995), 2-3. "Synagogues and Temples: Beth Ahabah and the Classical Tradition," Generations: Journal of Congregation Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives Trust (Richmond, Va.), Vol. 7/No. 1 (May 1995), 1-3. "Multiple Cultures, Multiple Heritages," Remarks published in "Issues of Historical Preservation in Central Europe and Russia," Conference Proceedings, ed. by J. Koehn, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Occasional Paper #259 (Washington, 1994), 40-54 and passim. "Why Save the Historic Brenham Synagogue?" in Chronicles: A Publication of the Texas Jewish Historical Society, Vol. I, No. 1 (1994), 33-39. Contributions to San Vincenzo al Volturno 1: The 1980-1986 Excavations (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 7), ed. by Richard Hodges (London 1993). "The Synagogues of Eastern Europe." Metropolis Magazine (June, 1993). "Survey of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland Yields Results." Avotaynu, VIII:4 (Winter, 1992).

"Preservation Update: USA." Judaica News, III:4 (Fall 1992), 3-4. "Private Initiatives in Preservation." The Cracow Symposium on the Cultural Heritage of the CSCE Participating States, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Washington, D.C., 1991), 9-23. The Future of Jewish Monuments, exhibition essay, The Joseph Gallery, Hebrew Union College, New York, November, 1990. "Ordering the Urban Environment: City Statutes and City Planning in Medieval Todi, Italy," in Warren Ginsberg (ed.), Acta, 15 (1988, published 1990), Ideas of Order in the Middle Ages, 121-135. "Urbanism, Western Medieval," Scribner's Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. XII, 320-331. Catalogue entries, Gardens and Ghettos, the Art of Jewish Life in Italy, ed. V. Mann, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989 REVIEWS Various books reviews in Jewish Heritage Report (1997, 1998, 1999 and on-line) Review of Alexander Gorlin, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture in Architectural Record (March 2014) Review of Susan Solomon, Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue in Tablet Magazine: A New Read on Jewish Life (Sept. 2, 2009). Review of Judson J. Emerick, The Tempietto del Clitumno near Spoleto and Carola Jäggi, San Salvatore in Spoleto: Studien Zur Spatantiken und Fruhmittelalterlichen Archittektur Italiens in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (June 2000) Review of Shiela Bonde, Fortress-Churches of Languedoc: Architecture, Religion, and Conflict in the High Middle Ages, in Architronic: The Electronic Review of Architecture (September, 1996). Review of Phyllis Lambert, ed. Fortifications and the Synagogue: The Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (September, 1996). Review of Diana Norman (ed.), Siena, Florence, and Padua: Art, Society and Religion 1280-1400 (2 vols.), Yale Univ. Press, 1995 in Renaissance Quarterly (Spring 1997), 313-15. Review of D. Friedman, Florentine New Towns, in Design Book Review, 19 (Winter 1991). Review of series L'architettetura popolare in Italia, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XLVIII:4 (Dec. 1989), 403-405. Review of Charles McClendon, The Imperial Abbey of Farfa, in Design Book Review, 10 (Winter 1988), 37-38.

Review of Torgil Magnuson, Rome in the Age of Bernini, Vol. I, in Design Book Review, 7 (1985), 59. SELECTED PAPERS, PUBLIC LECTURES, CONFERENCES THROUGH DECEMBER 2016  Session chair and respondent, Synagogue and Museum Conference, Braunschweig, Germany (Nov. 21-23, 2016) “Jews, Masons, and Cornerstone Laying Ceremonies for Synagogues in the South,” 41st Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference, Natchez, MS (Nov. 5, 2016) “Art of Old and New Worlds: The Chai Adam Shul Mural of Burlington Vermont,” invited lecture at International Workshop Synagogue Wall Paintings: Research, Preservation, Presentation, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew university, Jerusalem (13-14 September, 2016)

“A Jewish History of Central New York,” invited lecture, Manlius Public Library, Manlius, NY (Oct 6, 2016) “American Synagogues and Jewish Identity,” invited lecture in series “Expressions of Jewish Culture,” Spertus Museum at Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (March 22, 2016) “Saving Synagogues: The Preservation of Jewish Monuments in of Eastern Europe,” invited lecture, Cornell University (February 23, 2016) “Architecture of Immigration: American Synagogue Architecture from 1760-1920,” Invited lecture College of Jewish Studies, Binghamton, NY (Nov. 5, 2015) “A Break in Tradition: Care for Cemeteries Before and After the Holocaust,” Invited presentation at European Jewish Cemeteries: an Interdisciplinary Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania (26 Oct 2015) “The Unveiling of the Burlington Mural,” invited remarks at Ohavi Zedek synagogue, Burlington, Vermont (Aug 2, 2015) “Saving the Synagogues of Eastern Europe,” and “Marc Chagall in Paris, Russia and Israel,” two public lectures, Case western Reserve University, Cleveland (June 24-25, 2015)

“Before Modernism: American Synagogue Architecture Before the Second World War,” and “Protection and Preservation of American Synagogues: Reviewing the Past and a Roadmap for the Future,” invited seminar and public lecture, Jewish Historical society of Greater Washington (April 19-20, 2015)

“The Synagogues of New York, “invited lecture, Leo Baeck institute, New York, NY (April 1, 2015) “Arise and Build: American Synagogues and Jewish Identity,” invited lecture Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies, Penn State Harrisburg (March 18, 2015)

“Tracing the Four Column Tevah Synagogue Type in Ottoman Lands,” College Art Association annual meeting (Feb. 2015) “Building Westcott: An Architectural and Design History,” invited lecture, Eastside Neighbors Lecture Series, Syracuse, NY (scheduled January 11, 2015) Invited lecture, Congregation Agudas Achim, Austin, Texas (Oct. 26, 2014) Keynote address, Southern Jewish Historical Society annual meeting, Austin, Texas (October 24, 2014) “The Italian Jewish Ghetto in Context: A Culture of Enclosure and Control,” invited lecture for “Sawyer Seminar: The Ghetto: Concept, Conditions, and Connections in Transnational Historical Perspective, from the 11th Century to the Present, Carnegie Mellon University October 17, 2014). Invited lecture, Trinity college, Hartford CT (Oct. 2, 2014)

Invited lecture, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY (Sept 29, 2014)

Invited lecture, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, Washington, DC (Oct. 21, 2014)

“Incremental Urbanism in Medieval Italy: the Example of Todi,” Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, (April 9, 2014)

“History, Science and Religious Politics: The Archeology of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries,” Med/Ren Seminar, Syracuse University (April 4, 2014)

“Recent Trends in Jewish Art: Who is Jewish and Whose Judaism?,” ,” invited lecture Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY (March 30, 2013) “Describing Jews: Photography of Jews and Jewish Photographers,” invited lecture Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY (March 23, 2013) “Jewish Artistic Identity and a New Jewish Art: 1825-1925,” invited lecture Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY (March 9, 2013) “History, Science and Religious Politics: The Archeology of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries” paper for scholarly seminar The Practice and Materiality of Jewish Death at Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) annual meeting, Boston, MA (Dec 20, 2013) “Arise and Build: American Synagogues & Jewish Identity,” invited lecture Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY (Dec. 8, 2013)

“The Chai Adam Mural: A Precious Link Between Old World and New” and “Rampant Lions and the Law Revealed: The Chai Adam Synagogue Mural,” invited lectures at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, VT (Nov. 9-10, 2013)

“Classic Reform, Classical Synagogues and the American South,” conference paper at Southern Jewish Historical Society annual meeting, Birmingham, Alabama (Nov. 2, 2013)

“Percival Goodman and Synagogue Architecture,” Art and Architecture Symposium Keynote, Temple Beth El, Springfield, MA (Oct. 27, 2013)

“Gustav Stickley, Central New York and the Arts & Crafts Movement” invited lecture, Onondaga County Libraries (Petit Branch) (August 5, 2013)

“American Synagogue Architecture,” invited lecture, Congregation Kahal B'raira North Cambridge, MA. (May 19, 2013)

“Preservation of Jewish Heritage: Past, Present, Future: A Working Seminar on Projects, Challenges and Strategic Thinking,” Conference Keynote Address, Management of Jewish Built Heritage (Krakow, Poland, April 23-25, 2013).

Organizer and Chair of session “Plastics and Architecture,” Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, (April 18, 2013)

“Newish and Jewish from Europe: Refugees, Survivors and the Spread of Modernism,” College Art Association, annual meeting, New York, NY, (February, 2013)

“Todi’s Palazzo dei Priori: Recurring Reminder of the Communal Age,” Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Detroit, MI, (April 19, 2012)

“The Future of Plastics,” Speaker and panel moderator at Syracuse Showcase (April 18, 2012)

“Restoring Splendor: The Architecture of New York Synagogues,” invited lecture in conjunction with exhibition Landmarks of New York V at Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY , New York City (January 15, 2012).

"What Was New and Why? Synagogue Modernisms in Pre-Holocaust Europe" at annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) in Washington, DC. (Dec. 20, 2011), in session “From Historicism to Deconstructivism: Reconsidering European Synagogue Architecture.”

“Video Testimony of Trauma: Purpose, Ethics, Method,” Remarks delivered at Digital Witness Symposium, Newhouse School of Journalism, Syracuse University (Sept. 16, 2011).

“Concluding Remarks,” Kolloquium: Die Ausgradungen auf dem Rathausplatz in Köln (Colloquium: the Excavation at the Rathaus Square, Cologne), invited participation, Cologne, Germany (July 6-7, 2011).

“The Art & Architecture of Holy Trinity Church, Syracuse, NY,” invited lecture, Holy Trinity Church, Syracuse (June 19, 2011).

“Temple Concord, Jewish Architecture and City Beautiful,” invited lecture, Temple Concord, Syracuse, NY (April 11, 2011).

“Jewish Monuments: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Preservation Today,” invited paper delivered at Form and Content: a Symposium on Cultural Property, Colgate University (April 1, 2011).

“Synagogues and Jewish Cemeteries in Eastern Europe: Past, Present & Future,” invited lecture, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT (Mar 29, 2011)

“Restoring Splendour: The Architecture of New York Synagogues,” invited lecture Temple Emanu-El, New York City (March 21, 2011). “Émigré Architects and the Spread of Modernism in the Post-World War II American Jewish Community,” Association of Jewish Studies annual meeting, Boston, MA (Dec. 21, 2010) “Synagogue Modernism,” Invited lecture to be delivered at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (November 16, 2009). “History and Art in Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book’,” Invited lecture at Temple Concord, Syracuse, NY (co-sponsored by Judaic Studies Program, Syracuse University) (to be delivered November 1, 2009) “Changing Visions of America: Landscape and Cityscape in America Art,” Invited 5-lecture series at Silver Bay Association (Lake George) with Prof. Judith E. Meighan, (August 10-14, 2009). “The Architecture of Immigration: American Synagogue from 1760 to 1920,” Invited lecture at Jewish Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Virginia (September 13, 2009). “The Ghetto in Context: A Venetian Culture of Enclosure and Control,” Invited lecture for Save Venice Inc, NY, at Colony Club, New York (May 7, 2009). “Can L’viv be developed as a Jewish Heritage Center?” Invited lecture at Urban Jewish Heritage and History in East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine, (October 29-31, 2008) “Influence of Polish Architecture on American Synagogue Design,” Invited lecture at First Congress of Jewish Art in Poland: Jewish Artists and Central-Eastern Europe, 19th Century to WWII. Kazimierz on the Vistula River, Poland. (October 27-29 October 2008). “Synagogue Architecture in America,” public lecture at Museum at Eldridge Street (New York), as part of NEH funded series “Academic Angles” (October 5, 2008) “The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early Cinquecento Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control,” paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago (April 2008). “Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925): a Life in Architecture,” Public lecture delivered at Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY (Oct 16, 2007) and at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY (May 2008). “Jewish History in Stone (and other Materials): The Documentation and Preservation of Jewish Historic Sites,” lecture for Na’amat, Syracuse, NY (November 18, 2007). “Medieval Synagogues of the Mediterranean Region,” invited paper delivered at the international conference Jewish Architecture in Europe,” organized by Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (October 8-10, 2007). “Selective Inclusion: Integration and Isolation of Jews in Italian Medieval Urban Space,” to

be presented in session “Civic Spaces” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2007) “Sephardi Synagogues,” Invited lecture sponsored by Congregation Mikvah Israel-Emanuel, Curacao, in honor of the 275th anniversary of the Snoa (Synagogue). Maritime Museum, Willemstad, Curacao (April 19, 2007).“Bauhaus Tel Aviv,” Invited lecture sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York and Yeshiva University Museum. Center for Jewish History, New York (September 19, 2006) “Synagogue Architecture in the United States,” Lecture at Congregation Shirat HaYam, Nantucket, MA (August 18, 2006) “The Documentation, and Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe,” Annual Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, New York, NY (August 15, 2006) “The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early Cinquecento Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control,” presentation at NEH summer session “Shaping Civic Space in the Renaissance City,” Venice, Italy (July 13, 2006) “New York Synagogues and American Synagogue Architecture,” lecture given at Temple Beth El, Syracuse, NY (May 12, 2006) “Arise and Build: American Synagogue Architecture in the 20th Century” at Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany (November 17, 2005) “An Illuminating Story: the History and Symbolism of Synagogue Light,” Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies (December 12, 2004) “What Syracuse Can Learn from Italian Cities,” Public lecture, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, co-sponsored by the Preservation Association of Central New York (Nov. 21, 2004) “Rescued Heritage: The Restoration of Synagogues in Poland;” “Modern Synagogue Architecture: Between Memory and Innovation,” and “The American Synagogue and Jewish Identity: From Old World to New;” Three public lectures in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as part of Common Heritage: The Wooden Synagogues of Poland sponsored by the Polish Center of Wisconsin, UWM Center for Jewish Studies, UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning, Inc. (October 21-24, 2004) Organizer and moderator of sessions “ The Conservation and Restoration of Synagogues and Jewish Historic Sites,” and “Cemeteries and Memorials: Protection and Preservation,” at “The Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe” conference, Prague, Czech Republic, April 24-27, 2004. “Arise and Build: American Synagogue Architecture in the 20th Century.” Versions of this lecture were presented in October 2003 February 2004 at the National Building Museum (Washington, DC); the Buell Center for American Architecture, Columbia University; The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University; Department of Art History Smith College; The Harry Friedman Society, the Jewish Museum (New York); and various synagogues.

“Mapping Jews: Cartography and Topography in Rome’s Ghetto” paper to be delivered at Studium Urbis Conference on Nolli: "Giambattista Nolli, Imago Urbis and Rome" (30 May - 2 June 2003). “The Renaissance Recycling of Roman Ruins,” lecture sponsored by the Department of Classics, Colgate University (March 7, 2003) “’Seeing Leads to Remembering’: The Ethnographic and Architectural Expeditions of S. Anski (1912-15) and Szymon Zajczyk (1929-39) and Their Legacy Today” invited paper delivered at Borderlines Conference, Syracuse University (April 6-8, 2002) “The Underground Railroad and a Freedom Trail for Syracuse,” benefit lecture for NESCO (Near East Side Community Development Organization) at Bethany Baptist Church, Syracuse, NY, January 10, 2002 “American Synagogue Architecture: History, Architecture and Preservation,” lecture for Partners for Sacred Places, temple Beth Zion Beth Israel (Philadelphia), November 7, 2001. “American Synagogue Architecture,” keynote lecture at annual meeting of Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington November 4, 2001. “Sites of Shame: How We Remember Places We’d Rather Forget” invited paper delivered at conference “Framing Public Memory” conference, Syracuse University, September 28-29, 2001. “Modern American Synagogues” lecture delivered at University Synagogue, Irvine, CA (8 June 2001). “Restoring Glory: The Preservation of Sephardic Sites Around the World,” public lecture for The American Sephardi Federation, Center for Jewish History, New York City, September 19, 2000. “Memorializing the Holocaust: Remembering the Shoah in Brick and Stone.” Lecture delivered for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Rochester, Rochester, May 7, 2000. “Sites of Shame.” A lecture delivered at the School of Architecture, Cornell University, April 13, 2000. “A Walk Around My Block: A Exploration into the Universe of Everyday Living.” Lecture delivered in the University Neighbors Lecture Series, Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, March 9, 2000. “Jerusalem: Architecture of Three Faiths.” Lecture delivered at SUNY Cortland, February 29, 2000. “American Synagogue Architecture,” Benefit Lecture for the New York Landmarks Conservancy at Temple Emanu-El, New York City, February 8, 2000. “Medieval Jewish Archaeological Remains in Europe: A New Source of Pride and History” in session “Archaeology and Texts from Late Antiquity” at 1999 annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 20-23, 1999.

“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Architecture & Exhibitions.” Lecture delivered at SUNY Cortland, November 3, 1999. "Embracing Medieval Civic Architecture in Post-Risorgimento Italy," in session "Historicizing the Nation: The Middle Ages and the 19th-century Nationalist Imaginary" at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1999. “Italian Synagogue Architecture and Italian Jewish Identity: The Example of Piedmont” paper presented at “The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy,” Hofstra University, April 16, 1999. "European Preservation Projects of the World Monuments Fund's Jewish Heritage Program: The Tempel Synagogue in Cracow and the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hanian (Crete)," paper presented at an international conference on Jewish Heritage organized by the French Ministry of Culture, Paris, January 1999. "Jewish Monuments in Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Preservation Today," Kristallnacht Commemoration Lecture to be given at SUNY Courtland, sponsored by Jewish Studies, November 10, 1998. "Surveys and Preservation of Jewish Monuments in Eastern Europe," Plenary session lecture delivered at the 18th Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Los Angeles, California, July 14, 1998. "Synagogues of the Sephardic World," lecture at The Sephardic Synagogue of Fifth Ave., NY (November 17, 1997). "Urban Diaspora: Reclaiming Space," lecture given at the Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT. (October 30, 1997). "The Continuing Exodus: The Role of the Synagogue in Jewish Urban Migration," paper presented at the conference The "Church" and the City (April 18-19, 1997). Keynote speaker at conference Sacred Spaces: Preserve or Abandon? organized to celebrate the opening of the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center (February 20, 1996). "Restoring Memory: Krakow's Tempel Synagogue, Warsaw's Prozna Street, and Other Projects," College Art Association annual meeting (February, 1997). "Back to the Future? The Origins of our Urban Millenium," College Art Association annual meeting (February, 1997). "Preserving Our Past: Jewish Monuments and Memory in Eastern Europe, Spain and North Africa," lecture at University Synagogue, Irvine, Ca. (January 10, 1997). "Endangered Heritage: Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe," lecture at Temple Society of Concord (synagogue), Syracuse, NY (December 15, 1996). "Rescuing Our East European Past" lecture at Celebration of Jewish Learning, Jewish Community Center, Rochester, NY (Oct. 20, 1996). "Syrian Synagogues and Sephardic Traditions," public lecture at Syracuse University,

sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program (Sept. 26, 1996) "Medieval Deconstructionists," paper given at Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, St. Louis (April, 1996). "A Rediscovered Legacy: The Synagogues and Cemeteries of Eastern Europe," public lecture delivered at Brandeis University (March 25, 1996). "Medieval Synagogues," public lecture delivered at Brandeis University (March 25, 1996). "The Akedah in Jewish Art," lecture to art history seminar, Brandeis University (March 25, 1996). Invited participant, Dig We Must: reconstructing Florence Cathedral in the Central Middle Ages, University of Pittsburgh (November 4-5, 1995). "Endangered Heritage: Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe." Lecture to the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York (September 10, 1995). "Medieval Todi: Architecture and Urbanism," Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art Symposium: Italian Medieval Art, Columbia University, New York (30 April, 1995). "How Planned are Medieval Towns and Cities?" Organizer and Chair of session at Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Seattle (April 1995). "Representations of Domestic Space in Medieval Italian Painting," paper delivered at The Fordham Medieval Conference: The Family in the Middle Ages (25 March, 1995) "Endangered Heritage: Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogues in Poland," public lecture to be given at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (23 Feb., 1995). "Our Heritage: Preserving the Past, Planning the Future," Speaker at symposium sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles (20 November, 1994) "The Future of Jewish Monuments," lecture at Jewish Community Center, Richmond, Virginia (9 Oct., 1994) Invited participant at Historic Preservation: Issues Confronting Eastern Europe and Russia. Conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (Warsaw, 16-19 May, 1994). "San Vincenzo al Volturno: A Carolingian Monastery in the Principate of Benevento." Paper to be given (co-authored with Richard Hodges) at the Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting (Philadelphia) in session "Carolingian Architecture a Millennium Later - Survivals, Revivals and Metamorphoses, c. 760-950 (28 April 1994). Conference Chair and panelist at Preserving the Heights: A Conference on Planning and Preserving Morningside Heights, Columbia University (15 May 1993). "Sephardic Architecture: Past and Present." Lecture at the Meadows Museum, Dallas (18 February 1993).

"The Jewish Legacy: International Comparisons." Symposium held at the Goethe-Institut, London (19 November 1992) "The Future of Jewish Monuments." Lecture delivered to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 46th National Preservation Conference, Miami (9 October 1992). "Jewish Monuments in Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Preservation Today." Paper delivered at College art Association annual meeting (Chicago) in session "The Destruction of Cultural Heritage" (14 February 1992). "Sephardic Splendors: 800 Years of Sephardic Architecture." Lecture presented at Oheb Shalom Synagogue, South Orange, NJ (13 November 1991). "The Preservation of Jewish Monuments in Eastern Europe." Lecture presented at North Country Reform Temple, Glen cove, NY (November 1991). "Why We Preserve Historic Synagogues." Keynote address given at the Centennial of Gemiluth Chassed Synagogue, Port Gibson, Mississippi (20 October 1991). "The Preservation of Jewish Monuments." Remarks presented at The Future of Jewish Monuments in the British Isles conference, London, England (13 October 1991). "Private Initiatives in Preservation." Remarks presented as U.S. delegate to CSCE Conference on Cultural Heritage, Cracow, Poland (28 May - 7 June, 1991). Organizer, Conference Chair of The Future of Jewish Monuments: An International Conference on the Preservation of Historic Sites and Structures" sponsored by the Jewish Heritage Council, World Monuments Fund and Hebrew Union college, Jewish Institute of Religion (17-19 November 1990). "Medieval Synagogues." Lecture presented at Duke University, co-sponsored by the Art History Department and the Program in Jewish Studies (10 October 1990). "Alsatian Synagogues of the 19th Century Based on Drawings in the Leo Baeck Institute, N.Y." Paper presented at the XXVIIe Congres International d'Histoire de l'Art (September 1989). "The Building Trades in Medieval Italian Cities." Paper presented at Tools, Techniques and Technology: An Interdisciplinary Conference, sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, NY (3 March 1989). "Principles of Medieval Italian Urbanism." Paper presented to the Society of Architectural Historians, New York Chapter (26 October 1988). "The Jewish Agricultural Communities of Southern New Jersey and their Synagogues." Paper presented at Restoring the Faith, in session "American Places of Worship," sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians, Philadelphia (23 April 1988). "Ordering the Urban Environment: City Statutes and City Planning in Medieval Todi, Italy." paper presented at Ideas of Order in the Middle Ages, 1988 ACTA Conference, SUNY-Albany (8-9 April, 1988).

"The Medieval Houses of Todi: Survival and Change." Paper presented at 1988 College Art Association general meeting (Houston), in session "Italian Vernacular Housing 1400-1700: Significance of Change." "Two Rural American Jewish Communities and their Synagogues: Alliance, New Jersey and Brenham, Texas." Paper presented at 1988 College Art Association meeting (Houston), in session of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments. "Building Medieval Todi." Paper presented at the American Academy of Rome (April 1987). SELECTED ARTICLES THAT REFER TO SAMUEL GRUBER AND HIS WORK Note: projects designed, organized and/or overseen by Samuel Gruber for the World Monuments Fund and/or the U.S. Commission are frequented referred to in articles about the work of those organizations. The following refer specifically to Gruber's projects, or quote him extensively. Reviews and review articles of Gruber’s books are not listed. Gruber is frequently mentioned or quoted in articles related to cultural heritage and historic preservation issues in Syracuse. These articles and op-ed pieces can be easily searched through www.syracuse.com  Collins, Kate, “Syracuse landmark seeks recognition on National Register of Historic Places (video), Syracuse.com (May 11, 2016). Tenorio, Rich. In epic save, Vermont Jews rescue neglected ‘Lost Shul Mural’, Times of Israel (5/9/2016) Ethan de Seife, “Lost Shul Mural Unveiled in Burlington,” Seven Days (Aug. 3, 2015). Gantz, Nesanel, “The Lost Shul Mural: The Restoration of a Lost Shul Mural Bridges Two Worlds in Vermont,” Ami Magazine (Feb 19. 2014). Wecker, Menachem, “It Takes a Vilna: Historic Boston Shul is Seriously Underexposed,” The Forward (Feb 14, 2014). Hollander, Sophia, “Preserve a Synagogue, or Sell It: Uncertain Fate of Old Synagogue Reflects Debate Over What to Save,” Wall Street Journal (Feb. 13, 2014). Bidgood, Jess, “Salvage Drive for Rare Jewish Mural in Vermont,” NY Times (Jan. 31, 2014). Alonso, Fernando, III. “Temple Concord celebrates 100 years in its Syracuse building,” Post-Standard (March 12, 2011). Silberman, Neil A. “ReWriting Jewish History,” Archaeology (July/August 2010), 18, 58-66. Popper, Nathanial, 2007. “Coffers Empty, Romania’s Synagogues Languish,” The Forward (January 26, 2007). [about plight of Romanian synagogues] Goldman, Julia, 2004. “A Foundation,” in The (New York) Jewish Week (Jan. 6, 2004). [Article about Jewish architects and modern architecture]

Schmertz, Mildred, 2003. “Two synagogues regain new life and tell of the old,” in Architectural Record (May 2003), 187-190. [Article about restoration of synagogues in Krakow and Oswiecim (Auschwitz)] Dunbar, Jean, 2002. “A Burning Question,” in Preservation (November/December 2002) [Article about fire at religious sites] Henry, Marilyn 2001. “Rescue or robbery,” in Art News (September 2001) [Article about Bruno Schulz mural controversy]. Smith, Dinitia, 2001. “Debating Who Controls Holocaust Artifacts,” in The New York Times (July 18, 2001) Wise, Michael Z., 2001. “Columbia Gallery Draws a Bead on Percival Goodman, Who Designed More Synagogues Than Anyone Else,” The Forward (March 8, 2001). Goldberg, Shari, 2001. “Vernacular Synagogue Architecture,” cover story in Common Bond (New York Landmarks Conservancy) [4-page article based in large part on interview with Gruber, who is quoted throughout]. Korn, Brianne, 2000 “Poland shul’s restoration shows ‘Hitler didn’t win,’ Jewish Telegraphic Agency (wire service (February 18, 2000). Emmons, Jim, 1999. “Testaments to Architecture: Two Syracuse synagogues shine as examples of classic and contemporary design,” Syracuse Herald-American, November 28, 1999. [2-page spread w/ 4 photos of interview with Gruber about Syracuse synagogue architecture prior to talk at Historical Association] Lasoff, Melanie A., 1999. “From Worms Synagogue to Lloyd Wright’s Beth Shalom,” The Forward, Oct. 15, 1999. [article about Gruber and his book Synagogues] Johnson, Melanie, 1999. “Love of Architecture Began as a Teen,” The Syracuse Newspapers, Feb, 25, 1999. [profile] Case, Dick, 1999. “Razing Concern: Historic SU building will fall,” Syracuse Post-Standard, Feb, 11, 1999. Gladstone, Bill, 1998. “Architect [sic] helps to restore famed Krakow Shul,” Canadian Jewish News, Dec. 10, 1998. [long article on Gruber’s work with WMF and other organizations] Gavin, Robert, 1997. "Uncovering Jewish History," Syracuse Herald American and Newhouse News Service (December 28, 1997). [two-page story profiling Gruber and his work on Jewish monuments, also ran nation-wide on Religious News Service wire]. Percival-Straunik, Lindsay. "The East: Neglect Threatens Historic Jewish Sites," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (May 12, 1997). Jackel, Donna, 1996. "Empty Temples Tell of Loss," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (April 22, 1996), 28. [About Gruber's documentation of Jewish monuments]. Charles, Eleanor, 1996. "15 Synagogues Gain National Landmark Status," New York Times

(April 7, 1996) [Gruber quoted on significance]. Slatin, Peter, 1995. "Sacred Still." Historic Preservation Magazine 47:2 (March/April 1995), 60-67, 117-118. [About preservation of Morocco's synagogues, based on WMF survey]. Heller, Janet, 1994. "Out of Cracow's Shadows," Historic Preservation News (February/March 1994), 24. [About restoration of Tempel Synagogue]. Dillon, David, 1994. "Preserving a Legacy," Dallas Morning News (January 11, 1994). [Review of Future of Jewish Monuments.] Kaplan, David, 1992. "Scholar's monumental task saves historic past," The Houston Post (Feb. 2, 1992) [Feature story about Gruber's work].