Author, researcher, documentarian and genealogist residing in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia near Washington, DC. Originally from Detroit, Mr. Preisler is the son of Holocaust Survivors. He is a graduate of Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A life-long interest in Jewish history, synagogue architecture and genealogy has led Mr. Preisler to author several books including "American Synagogues: A Photographic Journey" (eBook 2008); "Historic Synagogues of Philadelphia & The Delaware Valley" (The History Press 2008); "Jewish West Virginia" (Arcadia Publishing 2010) and his newest book, "The Synagogues of Central & Western Pennsylvania: A Visual Journey (Fonthill Media 2014). At the present time he is working on several new research projects that will appear in eBook format soon.
With the sixth largest Jewish population and the fourth oldest organized Jewish community in the United States, Pennsylvania has hundreds of synagogues, past and present, and they come in all...
The United States has the second largest Jewish community in the world with a wealth of history and architecture spanning 363 years. From the earliest Jewish congregations established in the...
Pennsylvania has one of the largest and oldest organized Jewish Communities communities in the United States. Jews of Sephardic origin settled in what was to become the "Keystone State" in...
