ARTICLES
The following is a selection of articles regarding isolated Jewish communities published by Scattered Among the Nations leadership: Listen to an interview with Bryan Schwartz on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show, January 12, 2006. (download mp3)
"Lost In India" (Moment Magazine, August/September 2007) (photographs contributed by Sandy Carter and Bryan Schwartz)
"Celebrate Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur" (National Geographic, 2007) (photographs contributed by Bryan Schwartz)
"Celebrate Passover" (National Geographic, 2007) (photographs contributed by Bryan Schwartz)
"Celebrate Hanukkah" (National Geographic, 2006) (photographs contributed by Bryan Schwartz)
"Lost Tribes: Can They Save the Jews?", (B'nai Brith Magazine, December 2005)
"Tefila Sunrise: the Jews of Venta Prieta," (Hadassah Magazine, Fall 2005)
"Strong Fiber on the Silk Road" (regarding the Jewish communities of Bukhara and Samarkand, Uzbekistan), (B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2005)
"In a Village Where Even the Barber Is Jewish, Everyone Prepares for Passover" (regarding the Jewish community of Krasnaya Sloboda, Azerbaijan), (B'nai Brith Magazine, Spring 2004)
"The Lost Tribe that Found Elijah: India's Bene Israel" (B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly, Summer 2003)
"Helping Inca Jews cross the Red Sea" (Ha'aretz, 8/16/02)
"The New (Jewish) Frontier: a community of Asian Jews is a distant
outpost
of Judaism," (Hadassah Magazine, Aug./Sept. 2002)
"A Shtetl on the Veld: The empire of Orthodox ostrich farmers in South
Africa," (Jerusalem Report, 5/20/02)
"Even with freedom of religion, Portugese Jews miss good old days,"
(JTA,
4/29/02)
"Moses' Cowboys Ride On: Argentina's Jewish gauchos are staying put,"
(Jerusalem Report, 4/8/02)
"Son of Holocaust survivors a real-life hero to Uzbek Jews" (JTA,
4/1/02)
"In Morocco´s mountains, elderly Jew watches the shrine of his holy
rebbe"
(JTA, 3/7/02)
"In an Azerbaijani village, a teen-ager leads the seder"
(JTA, 2/12/02)
"In Ukraine, Cross dressing, vodka and songs mark the story of
Esther" (JTA, 2/10/02)
"Down in the Jungle: a thriving community of Jewish traders in Brazil's
Amazon may soon disappear," (Jerusalem Report, 1/28/02)
"In Peru, descendants of Incas are trying to convert to Judaism"
(JTA, 1/31/02)
"Peruvian Jews given glimmer of hope to make Aliyah," (Jewish Bulletin
of Northern California, 10/26/01) There have also been articles about Scattered Among the Nations, its photo exhibits and its projects:
Many nations, one tribe: Oakland photojournalist on a quest to document Jewish diversity" (Jweekly.com, 05/07/09).
"Exhibit tells story of Jews worldwide" (CentreDaily.comPenn State News, 04/10/09)
"Chronicling Jewish communities -- Local man's 'Jews of Color: In Color!' at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue" (Wahington Jewish Week, 9/21/05)
"Babel Judaica" (a profile on the Scattered Among the Nations organization and recent NYC exhibition), (Revista 18, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Summer 2003)
"Far-reaching Lens" (a profile of the 2005-2006 Scattered Among the Nations photo exhibit at the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Congregation Emanu-El in New York City), (Jewish Forward, 11/14/05)
"Photo Exhibit Records Isolated Jewish Communities" (a profile of the author and 2003 NYC exhibition), (Houston Jewish Herald-Voice, Anniversary Edition, 4/17/03)
"Israeli rabbis convert dozens of 'Inca Jews'" (Jerusalem Report, 12/9/01)
