About the cover
Locked exterior door of abandoned wooden synagogue in Alanta, Lithuania. Once numbering more than 1,000,these structures were the focal point of Jewish life in the small towns of Eastern Europe. Only a few now survive, being used as barns, storage sheds, or garages. The Florida Atlantic University Libraries, through its Judaica Collections, sent a team to Eastern Europe to document the remaining structures, an effort which resulted in a film narrated by Theodore Bikel. Wooden models of the wooden synagogues are currently on display in the Judaica Collections, which number more than 80,000 volumes gathered largely from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Israel.
