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New Calendar Focuses
On Notable Synagogues
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n the last decade, photographer Laszlo
Regos of Farmington Hills has spent
significant time exploring, admiring
and photographing noteworthy synagogues
throughout the United States and Europe.
His book featuring the world-
famous Dohany Street Synagogue
in Budapest, Hungary, was pub-
lished to coincide with that syna-
gogue's 150th anniversary last year.
This widely exhibited photogra-
pher has won a variety of awards
and has photographs in both
private and corporate collections.
Most recently, eight of his photo-
graphs were purchased for the per-
manent collection of the National
Museum of American Jewish History to be
opened this fall in Philadelphia.
Now, Regos has released a 16-month
Jewish and Gregorian calendar that includes
38 full-color photographs of 14 synagogues
in 12 states. The calendar contains all major
holidays, both Jewish and secular, as well as
candlelighting times.
Among the synagogues spotlighted are
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield,
Isaac M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati, Touro
Synagogue in Newport, R.I., Central
Synagogue in New York and Beth Shalom
Synagogue in Elkins Park, Penn.
"As a Hungarian Jew who became a suc-
cessful architectural photographer in this
country' Regos said, "I felt obligated to give
something to the Jewish community back
home and pay tribute to the memory of
my grandparents and the other 600,000
Hungarian Jews who perished during the
Holocaust. That was my motivation to do the
Dohany Street Synagogue book. My mother
still lived in Budapest and every time
I visited her, I went back to the syna-
gogue to discover every details of it. It
took almost nine years to finish."
It was during his research that he
found a smaller copy of the Dohany in
New York called the Central Synagogue.
"As soon as I got the permission to
photograph it," he said, "it became an
obsession and I have been photograph-
ing synagogues ever since."
As a commercial photographer,
he often travels — "and every time I try to
extend my trip to find and photograph the
architecturally and historically important
synagogues around the U.S'
Eventually, he would like to publish a book
about them. "The images in the calendar are
just a small selection of my collection," he
said.
Regos was born in Budapest, where the
most memorable times of his early childhood
were spent watching his father create magic
in the makeshift photo lab in the bathroom of
their small apartment.
Motivated by his love of photography, he
attended the Technical University of Budapest
and received a master's degree in photochem-
istry.
Regos emigrated to the U.S. in 1979 seeking
The 40-foot-wide Art Deco stained-glass
skylight made by the Payne Studios once
graced the ceiling of Temple Emanu-El in
Paterson, N.J. The building is no longer
a synagogue, but the beautiful window is
preserved.
political, religious and artistic freedom.
Within six years, he had opened his own
photography studio in Berkley, focusing on
the specialty of architectural and interior
photography. His photographs have been
published in a variety of magazines and in
the books Visual Merchandising, Store of the
Year, The Opera House, Synagogue Architecture
in America and The Dohany Street Synagogue.
The photographer is working on another
project in Europe, documenting old syna-
gogues built during the period of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire."Unfortunately, they are
vanishing," he said.
❑
American Synagogues (a
Jewish Architectural Calendar)
may be viewed on YouTube
at http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NWJ2WJTUei8. The calen-
dar is available at www.laszlofoto.
corn, www.amazon.com , www.calen-
dars.com and Borders Books (Laszlo
Regos Photography; $13.99)
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