The "Choral" Temple
Striped-brick Moorish Revival synagogue modelled on a lost Viennese temple, still holding services.
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This guide to the Choral Temple in Bucharest begins in eighteen sixty-six, with a crowd at a half-built synagogue while the legislative assembly debates the legal position of the city's Jews. It reaches back to a quarrel inside the community itself, between progressives led by Julius Barasch and Isaac Leib Weinberg and an Orthodox rabbi named Malbim. Stand facing the striped red and yellow brick facade and its horseshoe arches as you listen.
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