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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