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Samuel D. Gruber is an American art and architectural historian and historic preservationist .. He has written extensively on the architecture of the synagogue and is an expert and activist in the documentation , protection and preservation of historic Jewish sites and monuments .. synagogue. synagogue. He was born in Norristown , Pennsylvania and lives in Syracuse , New York .. He is Director of Gruber Heritage Global which includes the Jewish Heritage Research Center -LRB- Syracuse , NY -RRB- , a private consulting firm ; and President of the not-for-profit educational International Survey of Jewish Monuments -LRB- ISJM -RRB- .. From 1989 until 1995 he served as founding director of the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund and from 1998 through 2008 as Research Director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America 's Heritage Abroad .. World Monuments Fund. World Monuments Fund. In these roles Gruber has been , in the words of journalist Bill Gladstone , `` in the vanguard of an international movement to restore endangered Jewish heritage sites around the world . ''. Since 2014 Gruber has been consultant to the Lost Shul Mural Project in Burlington , Vermont .. In the decade and a half following the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe -LRB- 1990-2005 -RRB- , Gruber organized and supervised for the World Monuments Fund and the U.S. Commission more than a dozen countrywide surveys of cultural heritage sites of significance to religious and ethnic minorities .. World Monuments Fund. World Monuments Fund. Communism. Communism. These identified , mostly for the first time , thousands of previously unrecognized and undocumented synagogues , churches , mosques , cemeteries and Holocaust-related sites , almost all of which were visited and by survey teams that described their condition .. These projects included full or partial surveys of Jewish sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , The Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Moldova , Poland , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , and Ukraine ; Roma sites in Poland ; Old Believers sites in Lithuania ; and Protestant Christian and Muslim sites in Bulgaria .. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bulgaria. Bulgaria. Estonia. Estonia. Hungary. Hungary. Latvia. Latvia. Lithuania. Lithuania. Moldova. Moldova. Poland. Poland. Romania. Romania. Slovenia. Slovenia. Old Believers. Old Believers. He is author or editor of numerous articles and survey reports about Jewish monuments , and is a frequent public lecturer in the United States and Europe .. He has curated several exhibitions about Jewish architecture including the online `` Life of the Synagogue '' for the College of Charleston in 2015 .. College of Charleston. College of Charleston. In 1990 , for the World Monuments Fund , Gruber organized and chaired the first international conference on the preservation of Jewish historic sites .. World Monuments Fund. World Monuments Fund. He curated the accompanying exhibition `` The Future of Jewish Monuments '' at the Joseph Gallery of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion .. Since then he has participated and helped organize many related conferences and seminars including ones in Paris -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , Prague -LRB- 2004 -RRB- , and Bratislava -LRB- 2009 -RRB- .. In 2013 he was keynote speaker at the conference `` Managing. Immovable Jewish Heritage in Europe '' held in Krakow , Poland .. Poland. Poland. Krakow. Krakow. and in 2014 keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Southern Jewish Historical Society held in Austin , Texas. Southern Jewish Historical Society. Southern Jewish Historical Society. Since 2001 he has been Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Syracuse University .. Syracuse University. Syracuse University. where he teaches courses on Jewish art and architecture .. He has also taught at Temple , Binghamton , Cornell and Colgate Universities and Cazenovia and LeMoyne Colleges .. From 2010 through 2012 Gruber was curator of the Plastics Collection at the Special Collection Research Center -LRB- SCRC -RRB- at the Syracuse University Library .. Syracuse University. Syracuse University. Gruber was trained as a medievalist and architectural historian and is an expert on medieval urbanism , and especially Italian medieval towns and cities .