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David Gelernter

David Gelernter is a painter and a professor of computer science at Yale University. He is the author of Judaism: A Way of Being (Yale University Press).

A Tale of Two Synagogues

Winter 2012

A Tale of Two Synagogues

By: David Gelernter

Frank Lloyd Wright built a dazzling temple outside Philadelphia. Too bad he didn’t look closely at the synagogue of Gwoździec, Poland, built two hundred years earlier.

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