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Back When the Jews Built Like Jews Back When the Jews Built Like Jews
Thursday, March 21, 2013 by Ben Greenfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In December 1872, authorities in Florence halted elaborate plans for a grand synagogue and criticized the city's Jews—for not building more Jewishly.
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Copland's America Stephen Brown, Times Literary Supplement. Unlike other musical chroniclers of the American West, the Jewish composer Aaron Copland was not of pioneering stock.  But it was Copland who came to define the Western sound.