Bob Yorburg ’77, a master woodcarver renowned for his antique restorations of turn-of-the-20th-century carousels and calliopes, notes that the Jewish immigrant carvers of that era “raised the art of carousel carving to a new level.” “Their realism and extraordinary ornamentation defined the Coney Island style of carousel carving,” he writes. Additionally, these brilliant carvers translated their secular art into ornamentation that graced the historic synagogues of Brooklyn. Offering a photographic journey into the workshops of some of these artists—Marcus Charles Illions, Charles Carmel, along with Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein—Yorburg will be speaking on "Coney Island Jewish Immigrant Carvers" at…