Research Catalog

Title

Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the Warner murals : celebrating 150 years / Tom Teicholz ; edited by: Ann Lucke.

Author

Teicholz, Tom

Publication

• [Novato, California] : Oro Editions, [2013]
• ©2013

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Lucke, Ann Marie
• Bonner, Tom
• Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Description

176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded); 24 x 32 cm

Summary

The book is a history of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest Synagogue in Los Angeles, and how the Temple and the members of the congregation were and are part of the fabric of the City of Los Angeles. Photographs illustrate the building of the temple, the recent renovation effort (led by Levin & Associates) and the restoration of the famous Warner murals inside the Temple.

Alternative Title

Warner murals : celebrating 150 years

Subject

• Ballin, Hugo, 1879-1956
• Ballin, Hugo
• Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• Synagogue architecture > California > Los Angeles > History > Pictorial works
• Synagogues > California > Los Angeles > History > Pictorial works
• Synagogue art > California > Los Angeles > Pictorial works
• Synagogue art, American > Pictorial works
• Mural painting and decoration > Conservation and restoration > California > Los Angeles
• Reform Judaism > California > Los Angeles > History
• Jews > California > Los Angeles > History
• Buildings
• Jews
• Mural painting and decoration > Conservation and restoration
• Reform Judaism
• Synagogue architecture
• Synagogue art
• Synagogue art, American
• Synagogues
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• California > Los Angeles

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "All contemporary Warner Murals and Wilshire Boulevard Temple photograpy by Tom Bonner unless otherwise noted."--Title page verso.
• Place-of-publication from publisher's Web site.
• "Commissioned by the Warner Brothers who founded the movie studio of the same name, the murals were painted by Hugo Ballin and tell the story of the Jewish people from creation through 1929 when the building was constructed."--Http://www.wbtla.org/warnermurals.

Contents

Introduction -- Foreword -- Preface -- First impressions -- The central lunette : the days of creation -- The frieze : the scroll of Jewish history, from Abraham to America, from Abraham to the first temple -- The Hebrew congregation of Los Angeles and the murals that made history -- The eastern lunette : the prophets, rabbis, and sages of old -- Wilshire Boulevard Temple at the center of Jewish life -- The western lunette : the messianic age -- The sacred books -- The art and beauty of our worship -- From the east spandrels to the back wall : the wars of Israel and Judah -- The south wall : the matriarchs -- Thinking big : the role of congregational members in the life of the Temple, the city, the state, and the country -- The west wall : the great Jewish scholars from the Roman era to the middle ages -- The Jewish holidays -- Wilshire Boulevard Temple values : Tikkun Olam, interfaith dialogue, and support for Israel -- From the middle ages to America -- Renewal : the temple restoration -- The new world -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Wilshire Boulevard Temple trustees, past and present.

Call Number

JFG 21-98

ISBN

• 9781935935971
• 1935935976

LCCN

2018275430

OCLC

894478706

Author

Teicholz, Tom, author.

Title

Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the Warner murals : celebrating 150 years / Tom Teicholz ; edited by: Ann Lucke.

Publisher

[Novato, California] : Oro Editions, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Lucke, Ann Marie, editor.

Bonner, Tom, photographer.

Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Research Call Number

JFG 21-98