EIDLITZ, LEOPOLD

EIDLITZ, LEOPOLD
EIDLITZ, LEOPOLD (1823–1908), U.S. architect. Eidlitz was probably the first Jewish architect to practice in the United States. Born in Prague, he immigrated to America in 1843, and went into partnership with the German architect Otto Blesch. He was a versatile designer, known for his banks, his work on the Capitol at Albany, New York, and churches, including the Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis (1867). The synagogue Shaaray Tefila in New York was erected by Blesch and Eidlitz in 1847. It was built in the Romanesque style, and represented a break with the classical style of synagogue design previously current in America. In 1868 Eidlitz built Temple Emanu-El, on Fifth Avenue, New York. The basic plan was Gothic, as were some of the decorative details such as the rose window, but the Moorish element was given particular prominence. Eidlitz wrote The Nature and Function of Art (1881). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Roth, Art, 726–8; R. Wischnitzer, Synagogue Architecture in the United States (1955), 43–44, 74–76.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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