Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set)

Brenner, Frederic

ISBN 10: 0060087781 / ISBN 13: 9780060087784

Published by HarperCollins, 2003

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Synopsis:

Since 1978, French photographer Frédéric Brenner has been chronicling the Jewish Diaspora by producing visual social histories of Jewish communities. Diaspora is a photographic record of his 25-year search for the Jewish population in 40 countries over five continents. Volume I, 344 pages, is a collection of 262 of Brenner's more than 80,000 photographs, the most extensive and diverse visual record of Jewish life ever created. A four page color insert includes two full-color photographs. Volume II is 164 pages of evocative essays by leading intellectuals on the meaning and significance to each of them of 60 of Brenner's photographs, reproduced here in smaller format. Diaspora is a landmark project that captures the scope and dynamism of one of the world's oldest, most diverse communities, and challenges stereotypes held by Jews and non-Jews alike.

About the Author: Frederic Brenner was born in Paris in 1959 and holds a master's degree in social anthropology from Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has had solo exhibitions at the International Center for Photography, New York and the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne. Winner of the 1992 Prix de Rome, Brenner is the director of the film THE LAST MARRANOS and the author of ISRAEL (1988) and EXILE AT HOME (1998).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good