Reading/Signing with Jason Francisco

"Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory"

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 a sequence of pictures that moves between marked and unmarked historical locations in Europe and the United States, portraits of contemporary Jews, and the events of Jewish life.

 
Date and Time:
 Wednesday, July 26, 2006.  6:00 PM.
Approximate duration of 1 hour(s).
Location:
Stanford Bookstore Alcove  [Map]
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Lectures/Readings
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Open to the public. Free parking after 4:00 p.m.
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Last Modified:
July 10, 2006