Sergey R KravtsovSergey R. Kravtsov, PhD is a research fellow at the Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, he was trained as an architect in his native city. In 1993, he received his doctoral degree from the Institute fo the Theory and History of Architecture in Moscow, and moved to Israel in 1994. His research areas are the history of town planning, architectural theory, and the history of synagogue architecture. He is the author of Di Gildene Royze: The Turei Zahav Synagogue in L'viv (2011) and In the Shadow of Empires: Synagogue Architecture in East Central Europe (2018), and a co-author of Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue (2010-2012) and Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia (2017). He has also published about ninety essays in his research areas and edited and co-edited three books. Read More Read Less