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At age 42, Jeff Gusky, a doctor of
emergency medicine in Dallas, decid-
ed he wanted to better confront the
reality of modern Jewish history. The
result is Silent Places: Landscapes of
Jewish Life and Loss in Eastern Europe
(Overlook Press; $50).
Dr. Gusky bought "a good, journal-
ist-type camera and some lenses" and
read the instructions on route to
Poland, where accompanied on four
trips by his Polish guide, he took hun-
dreds of black-and-white photographs,
mostly in the remote villages where
Jews had lived and worked for nearly .
1,000 years before the Holocaust. He
accompanies his museum-quality pho-
tographs of austere landscapes and des-
ecrated remains of a once-thriving cul-
ture with text explaining the circum-
stances and significance of each photo.
"I was not prepared to encounter so
many centuries-old sites of Jewish his-
tory in the raw, abandoned, neglected,
disintegrating," writes Dr. Grusky.
"My greatest surprise, however, was
that in the four journeys to Poland, I
did not encounter a single Jew, only
emptiness, only absence."
And then — for those feeling flush
— there's Diaspora: Homelands in Exile
(HarperCollins; $100), by photographer
Frederic Brenner, a set of two oversized
volumes enclosed in a slipcase.
The first and larger, "Photographs"
includes more than 260 photos, along
with a map and itinerary of Brenner's
extensive travel over 25 years and five
continents. Many of the large photo-
graphs cover two pages, and are full of
surprises and irony, from the contempo-
rary Marranos in Portugal who continue
to celebrate Passover secretly, as they did
during the Inquisition, to a group of
Holocaust survivors with their lesbian
daughters.
In the second vol-
ume, "Voices," 60 of
the photographs are
reproduced in a smaller
format, each surround-
ed in a Talmud-like
style by the words of a
distinguished interna-
tional group of writers,
philosophers and pro-
fessors commenting on
the images and explor-
ing the themes of
Diaspora, identity,
memory, community,
rootedness and exile.
(Isn't it improbable how
rREEs..ERK BC:ENNER
Jewish all Jews look," notes the writer
Andre Aciman, originally from Egypt.)
Brenner, who is from France, shares
this thought: "I have been swept for-
ward by intuition, not intention, as I
became consumed with capturing the
identity of my tribe, the Jewish nation.
I go where the camera points. Each
time I release the shutter, I write a
new definition for something that
resists defining."
FOR THE ISRAELIST
Donna Rosenthal's The Israelis:
Ordinary People in an Extraordinary
Land (The Free Press; $28) was born
when a CNN producer told the
author, Our viewers are confused. We
have footage of Jews who look like
Arabs, Arabs who look like Jews. We
have black Jews, bearded 16th-century
Jews and sexy girls in tight jeans. Who
are these people?"
The author provides an in-depth
portrait of the contradictions found in
Israeli society, a result of the variety of
people inhabiting the Jewish state,
focusing on ordinary citizens in
"abnormal times." While covering ter-
rorism and relations with the
Palestinians, secular-religious tensions,
Askenazi-Sephardic divisions and
Israeli Arabs and Jewish immigrants
from Ethiopia and Russia, she allows
the people themselves — Jewish, Arab,
Christian and Druze,
men and women, reli-
gious and secular — to
speak for themselves.
Rosenthal, who has
written for many
American publications,
was a news producer at
Israel Television, a
reporter for Israel
Radio and the
Jerusalem Post and a
lecturer at the Hebrew
University. I 1