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HOME LANDS PRESS RELEASE Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora by Larry Tye "The new Jewish diaspora-of a 'heterogeneous people who thrive in secular societies'-is here to stay, asserts Tye.  As these diverse Jewish communities have become not merely way stations but enduring homes, they have begun to remake Judaism itself.  Tye tells this intriguing story through sketches of people and of life in seven cities." - Publisher's Weekly "Masterfully woven tapestry of contemporary Jewish life around the world….Highly readable and profoundly inspiring." - David A. Harris, executive director, American Jewish Committee "Larry Tye's HOME LANDS is an optimistic book about the Jewish people's ability to meet the challenges awaiting it in the twenty-first century.  On the one hand, it is an emotional book that very skillfully describes the new profile of the Jewish diaspora.  On the other hand it suggests important new ideas and thoughts about the way to perpetuate the Jewish existence.  Those of us for whom the future of the Jewish people is very dear will not and should not skip reading this book." - Yossi Beilin, author of His Brother's Keeper: Israel and Diaspora Jewry in the Twenty-First Century In his travels overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe, Larry Tye happened upon a revitalized Jewish world not reflected in what he'd read about the vanishing Jews of America and the disappearing diaspora. Instead, he found a renewal of Jewish identity under way around the world, from the former Soviet Union to the jam-packed synagogues of Atlanta and Boston.  In HOME LANDS: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora (Henry Holt & Company; September 10, 2001, $27.50), Tye brings his experiences, observations, and extensive research to the page by tracing this regeneration of Jewish life through the stories of seven far-flung Jewish communities, each of which offers its own compelling tale.  Focusing on specific cities in Germany, Ukraine, Ireland, France, Argentina, and the United States, Tye concentrates on a single family or congregation in each place whose own story reflects the wider community's past as well as its present. With the memory of the Holocaust still fresh, Tye finds that Düsseldorf has the fastest-growing Jewish population in the world.  The Jews of Buenos Aires have made a home in a land that also gave refuge to Nazi Henchmen the likes of Adolf Eichmann. Ireland is proud of its tight-knit Jewish community that has produced Lord Mayors in Belfast, Cork, and twice in Dublin.  Deep in the Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk illustrates how tens of thousands of Jews are reclaiming traditions stifled during a century of rule by the Nazis and the Soviets.  And within his own family in Boston, Tye tells of roots that run deep in the Jewish community at the same time he and his relatives embrace the secular society around them. These cities, plus communities in Paris and Atlanta, illuminate Jewish life past and present, and together make up the story of the new Jewish diaspora. While the first impression to emerge from the author's travels are the cities' differences, far more striking is what they have in common. A resurrection of purpose exists in which Jews feel confident living in diverse societies while still embracing a core of beliefs and practices that define them as Jews. They still share enough universal customs and rituals for outsiders to see them as part of the same people-whether it's donning the same traditional yarmulkes and talliths, chanting prayers in the same Hebraic tongue, or parsing the same passages from the Torah, Talmud, and Midrash. Even more striking, children are reversing the pattern of history by leading their parents and grandparents back to the synagogue and to Judaism. And a new partnership of equals is being forged with the Jewish state, one that acknowledges that the diaspora is as critical to the survival of Israel as Israel is to the survival of the Jewish people. Delving deep into the various communities, HOME LANDS offers an unexpected and inspiring story of a renewed Jewish diaspora that is no mere curiosity of history, but rather the reality of today and tomorrow. ABOUT THE AUTHOR A medical correspondent at the Boston Globe, Larry Tye has won numerous awards for his work.  He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is the author of The Father of Spin, a biography of public relations pioneer Edward L. Bernays.