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Raised in a nonreligious Jewish
family, Charles London knew his heritage but had no strong desire to
experience it personally. Then in the summer of 2004, while doing relief work
in Bosnia, he stumbled upon a remarkable community--where Jews worked
alongside Muslims and Christians to rebuild a city ravaged by war. This
encounter gave him the idea for a journey that would take him around the
world and back to his roots. "Far
from Zion" is the story of Jews in far-flung, often surprising places.
Despite efforts by Israel to bring these scattered people home to Zion, they
have chosen to remain in the lands of their birth: a shopkeeper selling
Jewish trinkets in Iran, a caretaker keeping watch over an all-but-forgotten
synagogue in Rangoon, revelers at a Hanukkah celebration in an Arkansas
bowling alley, a Cuban engineering professor, proud of his Jewish heritage
and prouder still of his Communist ideals. It is through their stories and
many others that London examines his own identity, as he, too, struggles to
come to terms with his connection to Zion.