Fine, Jo Renee. The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side by Jo Renee Fine and Gerard R. Wolfe.

Washington Mews Books (A Division of New York University Press), 1978. Photographs by Jo Renee Fine. Text by Gerard R. Wolfe. Introduction by Harry Golden.   [Includes history of Jews in New York City beginning in 1654, Reformers and Traditionalists, Growth and Decline of East Side Jewish Community, Era of Mass Immigration, Chronology of Major Hebrew Congregations, Maps of Lower East Side Synagogues and Small Synagoguges North of Houston Street, the Great Synagogues, the Small Synagogues North and South of Houston Street, Shtieblach, Former Synagogues. Photographs, often several of each, include Congregation Khal Adas Heshuruan with Anshe Lubz; Beth Hamedrash Hogodol; Bialystoker Synagogue; First Roumanian-American Congregation; Congregation Chasam Sopher; Congregation Beth Hakneesseth Mogen Avraham and Rozwadwer Synagogue; Congregation Sons of Israel Kalwarie; Congregation Anshe Slonim; Erste Warshawer Congregation; Congregation Kehila Kodosha Janina; Congregation Beth Haknesseth Etz Chaim Anshe Wolozin; Rabbis at House of Sages; Congregation Senier and Wilno; Young Israel Synagogue; East Side Torah Center; Downtown Talmud Torah Center; Congregation B'nai Jacob Anshe Brzezan; Congregation Anshe Baranove; Congregation Beth Mamedrash Hagodol Anshe Ungarn; Congregation B'nai Rappaport Anshe Rembrava; Congregation Ahavath Yeshuruan Shara Torah; Congregation Adas Yisroel Anshe Mezeritch; Congregation Tiferreth Israel; Congregation Kochob Jacob Anshe Kamenetz Lite; Congregation Bnai Moses Joseph Zavichost-Zosmer; Independent Kletzker Brotherly Aid Society; Mishkan Israel Suwalki Synagogue; Anshe Ileya Synagogue; Anshe Tifereth Jershelaim Synagogue; Hester Street synagogue.]  1st edition, not to be confused with later reprint.  Summary:

The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side (1978), published by Washington Mews Books / New York University Press with text by architectural historian Gerard R. Wolfe, photographs by Jo Renée Fine, and an introduction by Harry Golden, is a landmark historical and photographic survey of Jewish sacred spaces in Manhattan.

Key Details & Summary

• Scope & Subject: Documents the architectural and social history of the synagogues established by Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants during the peak era of mass immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the Lower East Side became the largest Jewish community in the world.

• Photographic & Architectural Record: Features extensive black-and-white photography by Jo Renée Fine capturing both grand landmark sanctuaries (such as the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue) and modest storefront places of worship (shtiebels), recording intricate interior woodwork, arks, stained glass, and structural details.

• Historical Narrative: Traces the arc of the neighborhood from a vibrant portal of American Jewish life through its mid-20th-century demographic shifts, documenting how congregations adapted, merged, or relocated as the community dispersed.

• Cultural Legacy: Serves as the pioneering, definitive visual and historical document of Lower East Side Judaica, preserving the memory and physical heritage of dozens of congregations that formed the spiritual heart of immigrant New York.

Copies available:

• Ex-library, good hard cover with dust jacket, discard stamps, missing half of rear flyleaf where card pocket removed, piece missing from bottom of dust jacket spine replaced with photocopy, tape evidence where former dust jacket protector taped to book, clean, little evidence of wear. 
• Ex-library, very good, no discard stamps, with perfect dust jacket (no label), card pocket on rear flyleaf, tape evidence where former dust jacket protector taped to book.