Long Island, NY has a rich Jew­ish his­to­ry span­ning 300 years but is best known as Amer­i­ca’s first sub­urb for its growth post World War II. The Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion in Nas­sau and Suf­folk coun­ties explod­ed in this peri­od and by 1960 over 400,000 Jews called Long Island home. Con­gre­ga­tions were formed at a dizzy­ing pace and flour­ished with 105 syn­a­gogue build­ings being con­struct­ed between 1946 – 1970. Today Long Island’s Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty faces its chal­lenges with con­gre­ga­tions merg­ing and build­ings being sold off, yet main­tains a sig­nif­i­cant Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion and is the 4th largest Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in the Unit­ed States (after NYC, LA and south­ern Flori­da). Seek­ing Sanc­tu­ary: 125 Years of Syn­a­gogues on Long Island is the first com­pre­hen­sive look at the his­to­ry of the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in Nas­sau and Suf­folk coun­ties in New York. The hard­cov­er cof­fee table book fea­tures over 350 orig­i­nal pho­tographs and archival images that doc­u­ment every syn­a­gogue build­ing on Long Island, past and present.