BOOKS #22. Israel '70 Travel Guide
Planning a trip to Israel, don’t forget your copy of Oscar Israelowitz’s ISRAEL 70 TRAVEL GUIDE. It’s got over 1,000 entries of places to visit including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Eilat, Be’er Sheva, Haifa, Caesarea, and Tiberias. Enjoy the glorious beaches, natural springs, enchanting deserts, and soaring mountains. There are over two hundred museums of all sorts including the new Yaakov Agam Museum. Take a tour of the Coca-Cola factory and the Carlsborg Brewery. Visit Mini Israel, the Air Force Museum and the Israel Railway Museum. Explore the subterranean Tunnel Tour below the Western Wall in Jerusalem, visit a stalactite cave, climb Masada, and delight in the grottos of Rosh Hanikra. There are listings of Israeli folk dancing, kosher restaurants, 16-page Index and bus routes of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. There is a complete tour of the Bauhaus Historic District in Tel Aviv with its nearly 4,000 “White City” buildings.
$29.95 (plus $5.00 shipping in USA) 300 pages Paperback 5.5”wide by 8.5” high
Contact Oscar Israelowitz at oscari477@aol.com or tel. (718) 619-3900
BOOKS #23. Synagogues of the United States
Enjoy looking at unique and historic synagogues from all around the United States. See synagogues which were designed by the world’s great architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Percival Goodman, Paul Rudolph, Adler & Sullivan, Eric Mendelsohn, Harrison & Abramovitz, Minoru Yamasaki, Arnold Brunner and Sidney Eisenshtat. Some of the synagogues included in this beautiful volume are the Touro Synagogue, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Temple Emanu-El of New York, Beth Zion of Buffalo, Lloyd Street Synagogue, Isaac M. Wise Temple, K.A.M. of Chicago and the Wilshire Boulevard Temple. One of the most haunting pictures in the book was taken of the burnt-out shell of Congregation Emanu-El following San Francisco’s Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906.
$24.95 (plus $5.00 shipping in USA) 8.5″ wide by 11″ high Paperback
Contact Oscar Israelowitz at oscari477@aol.com or tel. (718) 619-3900