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Long before I knew anything at all about Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World, that illustrated blockbuster of the 18th century, I was familiar with many of its engravings, especially those that depicted the interior of a synagogue and a sukkah, respectively. I no longer remember how I first encountered these images—was it ...

Reading an article in yesterday’s Times on documentaries about famous parents by their children, it was striking to realize that the overwhelming majority of those who have been so profiled—the architect Louis Kahn, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Brooklyn-born folksinger Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and the lawyers William Kunstler and Martin Garbus—were Jews.
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Louis Kahn may be the best known Jewish American architect. Among practicing architects and critics he is certainly the most revered. Though not traditionally religious, nor affiliated with any synagogue, Kahn identified with being a Jew—in a way inevitable for almost any immigrant of his generation. Born in Estonia in 1901, he immigrated to America ...