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About Jono David
JONO DAVID (b. 1966, Stoke-on-Trent, England) is a US-UK independent photographer and writer based in Tokyo, Japan. His images and writings have been published in 17 books and numerous newspapers and periodicals such as the Los Angeles Times, the New Zealand Herald, the Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post, and Hadassah Magazine. He has also exhibited his work at several museums including the Beit Hatfutsot Museum (Tel Aviv), the Irish Jewish Museum (Dublin), and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (South Africa). While his photographic pursuits are wide-ranging, he has a particular passion for Jewish photographic documentation. His camera has taken him to nearly 150 countries and territories. He holds an MA Photography (Middlesex University, UK), an MA Modern English Language (University College London, UK), and a BA English Language and Literature (University of Maryland, College Park, USA). His websites: www.jonoDavid.com, www.JewishPhotoLibrary.com.
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In August 2012, independent photographer, Jono David, set out on an audacious Jewish African journey. His aim was to document the life, culture, and history of the Jewish people from one end of the continent to the other. Over the next 4 years, he would take 8 unique trips totaling some 60 weeks of travel to 30 countries and territories. His adventures led him from the continent's largest communities strewn across Southern Africa to ancient yet vibrant communities in Morocco and Tunisia to emerging Jewish groups in unexpected places like Uganda, Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, and Madagascar. It is the largest Jewish Africa photographic survey of its kind.
In words and images, THE JEWS OF AFRICA brings the entire journey to life and aims to answer one central question: Who are the Jews of Africa? The answer is as complex and rich as the communities themselves particularly as the phenomenon of the emergence of Jewish communities is gaining rapid and wide traction, notably in West and Central Africa.
*** Purchasers of THE JEWS OF AFRICA will have exclusive access to 4 online bonus galleries featuring some 300+ photographs and numerous anecdotes not featured in the book. The photographs are also available to purchasers at a special reduced rate. ***
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Comments from Survivors featured in this eBook:
"I have carefully read your text, then examined the photos along with the short personal statements. To me, this is in a way a great Book of Life. Challenging as well as rewarding in so many ways!
To begin with - its title, a little ambiguous at first, but then, following your explanation - full of beneficial meaning, valid even beyond the Holocaust context. As you have stated, the worst things that happened to us should not define any one of us. It is our passion for life, as well as our specific contribution to it, that becomes our true spiritual identity card as well as our testament.
While the Nazi ideology and practice endeavored to outcast and annihilate, your project is in my view a specific and inspiring evidence and approval that every life is indeed a part of the Great Chain of Being. That every life matters, in terms of its individual specific weight (sic)."
--- Dina Katan Ben Zion. Tel Aviv, Israel.
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"A friend of mine shared a story about this young man, a refugee from Prague. When asked by his siblings what he wanted to have from his mother's belongings, since she had passed away some time ago, he answered: her coat!
And there I sat with the memory of my mother's coat still comforting me and you portraying this feeling [in my portrait]. What can I say? I was speechless...Isn't it wonderful?!"
— Hania Rosenberg. Stockholm, Sweden
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"I admire your photos and the concept behind them. Up to now, all the photographers tried to make us look old and unhappy, whereas, in reality, we had full and productive lives after the Holocaust.”
--- Marcel Drimer. Washington, D.C., USA.
Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey is a collection of 56 of Jono’s real-time blog stories and some 70 compelling photographs -- many of them personal and published for the first time (plus URL links to thousands more Jewish Africa photos on his website). These tales and images of Jewish Africa offer a unique glimpse not only into these remarkable Jewish communities but into the behind-the-scenes work that goes into pulling off such an intrepid travel plan.