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Frederic Brenner, author of "Diaspora: Homelands in Exile"

trying to capture a complexity that
Jewish institutional organizations are
uncomfortable with," Mayer says.
This latest collection features more
than 500 of Brenner's photographs,
and for the first time in any of his
five books includes commentary by
such figures as French philosopher
Jacques Derrida and black-Jewish
professor Julius Lester, as well as his
own notes. A photographic exhibit
of Diaspora will begin its worldwide
tour in New York at the Brooklyn
Museum, beginning in October.
For Brenner, his pictures always
represented "the enigma of identity"
for Jews, "of dispossession and dis-
persal that is not only passively expe-
rienced but deep within us."
He points to one photo in particu-
lar, from the Soviet Union in 1983.
Brenner saw beyond the stereotyp-
ical Iron Curtain of urban refuseniks
by trekking to the then unmapped
Central Asian republics, among the
first Western photographers allowed
in, he says.
In Azerbaijan, he found musta-
chioed Jewish men in a local tea-
house looking much like their coun-
trymen.

"Jews take the shape and color of
where they are. All identities are
invented, even ours," he says.
His mission to explore that identi-
ty began in 1978, when Brenner, 18,
the assimilated son of French par-
ents, launched his own search for
identity with a trip to Israel. His
maternal grandparents came from
Algeria and his paternal grandpar-
ents from Romania and the Ukraine,
assembling a familial "puzzle" he's
been piecing together since.
Schooled as an anthropologist, he
began taking pictures, including of
the fervently Orthodox Jerusalem
neighborhood of Mea Shearim.
There, he recalls, white, European
Jews "reproduced a shtetl" in the
Land of Zion, but he saw it as only a
fragment of the whole Jewish pic-
ture.
Armed at first with foundation
grants, Brenner began traveling in
the early 1980s to the Soviet Union
to learn how Jews retained their eth-
nic identities.
That turned into a 12-year
marathon to more than 80 countries

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