Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory

by Jason Francisco

Part document and part visual poem, Far from Zion is the response of a young American Jew to the historical experience of Ashkenazic Jewry in the last century. In the spirit of a contemplative but unsentimental reckoning, the photographs consider the fragmentation and historical contingency of Jewish experience, the discontinuity and fragility of Jewish identity, and the uncertain meaning of diaspora as a Jewish inheritance. The result is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750459
• ISBN13: 9780804750455
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Stanford General Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.0" x 11.3"