Samuel D. Gruber is the author of books about synagogue architecture, dozens of reports of historic preservation and historic sites, and scores of articles, hundreds of substantive blogposts, newspaper articles, and website contributions about art, architecture, historic preservation and cultural heritage.
You can download or find links to many of his publications here.
Most Recent
“Arthur Szyk’s Synagogue Commissions and Their Place in Post-World War II Jewish Religious and Commemorative Art,” in Arthur Szyk: Art-Propaganda-Memory (Fairfield, CT: Fairfield University Art Museum, 2023), 27-31.
“Die Leeren Räume der Jüdischen orte,” / “”The Empty Spaces of Jewish Places,” Forward to Christian Herrmann, Borderlands (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2023), 6-13.
“Twenty Years Later: Reconsidering My Book on American Synagogue Architecture,” Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Notes, 19:1 (November 2023), 140-153
“Can Art in Ruined Synagogues Make the Old Seem New Again?,” Introduction to A. D’Alessio and A. Zevi, eds. La Sinagoga di Ostia Antica: 60 Anni dalla scoperta. 20 Anni di Arte in Memoria (Ostia: Parco archeologico di Ostia antica, 2023), 9-11.
“Synagogues in the New World,” in L. Uluhanli, ed., Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism (New York: Rizzoli International, 2022), 188-243.
“Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925): America’s Foremost Jewish Architect,” in Andreas Brämer, Katrin Kessler, Ulrich Knufinke & Mirko Przystawik, eds., Jewish Architects – Jewish Architecture? (Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021), 43-52.
“Jewish Heritage in Russian Architecture,” Forward to Gary Berkovich, Reclaiming a History: Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR, Vol. I (Weimar and Rostock: Grunberg, 2020), 11-24.
“Many Routes to Revelation,” in Reilly, Maura, ed. Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy. (London: D Giles Limited, 2020), 86-101.
“The Brunner Plan for the Harrisburg Capitol Complex,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Special Issue: Harrisburg, Digital Public History, and the ‘City Beautiful.’ Vol. 87:1 (winter 2020), 155-163.
Review of Synagogues in Hungary 1782–1918 Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance, written by Rudolf Klein, IMAGES, 13 (1) (2020), 159-164.
“Four Synagogues and A Hillel House: Notes from a Quick Trip to Rhode Island,” Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Notes 18:1 (Nov. 2019), 157-185.
“Modern Synagogues,” in Fine, Steven, ed. Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 307-333.
“Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present” in Fine, Steven, ed. Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 275-286.
Books
American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and the Jewish Community (with Paul Rocheleau, photographer). (New York: Rizzoli, 2003)
Synagogues (New York: Metrobooks, 1999)
Published Reports
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Graves in Lithuania (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2015)
Selected Protestant Historic Monuments and Sites in Bulgaria (editor), (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2013)
Jewish Historic Monuments and Sites in Bulgaria, part 1 & part 2, (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2011)
Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2011)
Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Moldova (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2010)
Historic Jewish Sites in Romania (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2010)
Survey of Muslim Sites in Bulgaria, (editor) (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2009)
Survey of Roma Heritage Sites in Poland (editor) (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2009)
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2005)
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues and Monuments in Slovenia (co-author with Ruth E. Gruber) (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2005)
Sites Associated with the Lives and Deeds of foreign-born Heroes of the American Revolution (U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Washington, 2002)
Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in the Czech Republic (co-author with Phyllis Myers), U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and World Monuments Fund, NY, 1995.
Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Poland (co-author with Phyllis Myers), U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and World Monuments Fund, NY, 1994 (second revised edition, 1995)
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
“Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control,” in W. Goldman and J. Trotter, eds, The Ghetto (London and New York, Routledge, 2017)
“Incremental Urbanism in Medieval Italy: The Example of Todi,” in M. Abel, ed. Medieval Urban Planning: The Monastery and Beyond (2017)
“Selective Inclusion: Integration and Isolation of Jews in Medieval Italy,” Jewish Cultural Studies (2013)
“Mapping Jews: Cartography and Topography in Rome’s Ghetto,” in A. Ceen, ed. Giambattista Nolli and Rome: Mapping the City before and after the Pianta Grande (2013)
“Arnold W. Brunner and the New Classical Synagogue in America,” Jewish History (2011)
in E. Van Voolen and A. Sachs, eds., Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture (2004)