MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009006568
003 DLC
005 20100126065440.0
008 090213s2009 nyua 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009006568
020 $a9780061561061
020 $a0061561061
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn310399039
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050 00 $aDS134$b.L655 2009
082 00 $a305.892/4$222
100 1 $aLondon, Charles,$d1980-
245 10 $aFar from Zion :$bin search of a global Jewish community /$cCharles London.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $a[New York] :$bWilliam Morrow,$cc2009.
300 $aviii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aBelonging -- Caretakers -- Newcomers -- Rebirth -- Siege and survival -- Converts -- Imperiled? -- Revolutionaries -- Zion.
520 $aRaised in a nonreligious Jewish family, London knew his heritage but had no strong desire to experience it personally. But in the summer of 2004, while doing relief work with children in Bosnia, he stumbled upon a community where Jews worked alongside Muslims and Christians to rebuild a city ravaged by war. London liked this idea of a humanitarian Judaism, and this encounter gave him the idea for a journey around the world and back to his roots. From a shopkeeper selling Jewish trinkets in Iran, to a Hanukkah celebration in an Arkansas bowling alley; from Rangoon, where a chain-smoking caretaker watches over an all-but-forgotten synagogue, to an engineer in Cuba proud of his Jewish heritage, yet even prouder of his Communist ideals, pockets of the Diaspora endure. Their decision to stay put offers hope that peace may lie not in congregating behind borders but in the promise of a global community of neighbors.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aJewish diaspora.
600 10 $aLondon, Charles,$d1980-$xReligion.
600 10 $aLondon, Charles,$d1980-$xTravel.
650 0 $aJews$xIdentity.
650 0 $aJews$xCivilization.