Non­fic­tion

A Peoloe­hood | Ami­ut Yehudit

  • From the Publisher
September 1, 2025

A Peo­ple­hood | Ami­ut Yehu­dit is a con­cep­tu­al doc­u­men­tary work that exam­ines con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish iden­ti­ty through visu­al cul­ture and per­son­al tes­ti­mo­ny. The book brings togeth­er pho­tographs, archival imagery, inter­view excerpts, and frag­ments from social media and print news as cul­tur­al arti­facts, reflect­ing how Jew­ish life is wit­nessed, refract­ed, and archived across per­son­al and pub­lic con­texts. Rather than offer­ing a sin­gu­lar nar­ra­tive or ide­o­log­i­cal posi­tion, the work presents an inti­mate, mul­ti-voiced por­trait of a diverse com­mu­ni­ty nav­i­gat­ing belong­ing, mul­ti­plic­i­ty, and vis­i­bil­i­ty. Through a non­lin­ear struc­ture that moves between image and text, it invites engage­ment with the spaces between past and present, vis­i­bil­i­ty and era­sure, and per­son­al tes­ti­mo­ny. Draw­ing from mate­r­i­al cre­at­ed between 2018 and 2022, and com­ple­ment­ed by devel­oped work respond­ing to events fol­low­ing Octo­ber 7, 2023, the book holds longer tra­jec­to­ries along­side a moment of pro­found dis­rup­tion. It con­sid­ers not only how Jews see and express them­selves, but also how Jew­ish life is inter­pret­ed, pro­ject­ed upon, or politi­cized beyond the com­mu­ni­ty. While root­ed in Toron­to, its themes extend beyond geog­ra­phy, reflect­ing expe­ri­ences across Jew­ish communities.

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