ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Bryan Schwartz has lived and prayed with Jewish communities in 28 countries and more than 100 towns and villages during the last fifteen years. He has recently spoken to audiences regarding world Jewry in four languages on five continents. His "Scattered Among the Nations" exhibit with Sandy Carter and Jay Sand, featuring stories and photographs from their book, premiered at New York's Center for Jewish History in February 2003. Their Jews of Color: In Color! exhibits will show in 2005-2006 in Washington, DC, the San Francisco Bay Area, and at New York's Congregation Emanu-El -- the world's largest Jewish congregation. Mr. Schwartz's articles on isolated Jewish communities have appeared recently from Jerusalem to New York, Sao Paolo to San Francisco, in such varied publications as Israel's news daily Ha'aretz, Hadassah Magazine, B'nai B'rith Magazine, The Jerusalem Report and New York's Jewish Forward.

Listen to an interview with Bryan Schwartz on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show, January 12, 2006. (download mp3)

Sandy Carter has photographed nuns in France and South Korea for the Little Sisters of the Poor, Roma (Gypsies) in Slovakia for the Roma Foto Projekt and several of the world's most isolated Jewish communities in India for Scattered Among the Nations. Her book with famed Canadian photojournalist, Ted Grant, Women in Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work, was released in 2004 by Firefly Books Ltd. Some of the publications featuring her photography include the Photographer's Forum, Hadassah Magazine, Photo Life, Leica USA, The Vancouver Sun, The B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly and recently in the launch issue of C-ing Magazine. Her work for the Roma Foto Projekt was exhibited at both Park Point University in Pittsburgh and Harvard University in Massachusetts and her work is part of permanent exhibitions at both the North Shore Medical University Hospital and the Long Island Jewish General in New York. Ms. Carter lives in Anacortes, Washington where she specializes in documentary style photography.

Jay Sand is one of the world's leading experts on black African Jewry. Since visiting Jewish communities in six African countries during 1999-2000, Jay has delivered multimedia, multicultural Jews of Africa presentations throughout North America, lecturing at synagogues, community centers, youth groups, schools, universities and museums. He has published photos of African-Jewish communities in Hadassah and Bridges magazines. Jay graduated the University of Pennsylvania Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with an honors degree in History.