I'm please to add information about my two newest published books. The Synagogues of Eastern Pennsylvania: A Visual Journey, was just published by Fonthill Media and Arcadia Publishing. It features 128 pages and 195 images of current and former synagogues in the 4 regions of Eastern Pennsylvania. A brief history of each Jewish Community is presented as well. This new book is a companion volume to my earlier work, The Synagogues of Central & Western Pennsylvania: A Visual Journey. America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations: Architecture, Community & History was published last year also by Fonthill Media. The book features the oldest existing Jewish congregation in each of the fifty US states plus Washington, DC; Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. As with most of my books, this books is also heavy with beautiful images nearly half in color. All of my books are available on Amazon.

I've been making an effort to be more active on my "professional" Facebook page and have posted some interesting new synagogue photographs. There are several from Western Pennsylvania that show simple and clean design on Mid-Century Modern synagogues in small towns outside of Pittsburgh. Please take a look https://www.facebook.com/pages/Julian-H-Preisler/122194607887961 and do click "like" if you feel so inclined. As you can tell by many of my posts, I have a great interest in small town synagogues and especially those that were built in the 1950's and 1960's.

Historic Synagogues of Philadelphia & The Delaware Valley

I posted a short photograph slideshow video to YouTube with a selection of images from my book, "Historic Synagogues of Philadelphia & The Delaware Valley" published by The History Press. The book features present-day and vintage images of current and former synagogues with detailed photo captions. The book covers Philadelphia, the suburbs and also Delaware and much of Southern New Jersey. I look forward to your comments and feedback. http://www.youtube.com/user/mimofan63