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<p>A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau’s <b>Searching for Zion</b> takes readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman’s quest for a place to call “home” and an investigation into a people’s search for the Promised Land, this landmark work of creative nonfiction is a trenchant inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement.<br> <br> At the age of twenty-three, award-winning writer Emily Raboteau traveled to Israel to visit her childhood best friend. While her friend appeared to have found a place to belong, Raboteau could not yet say the same for herself. As a biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, she’d never felt at home in America. But as a reggae fan and the daughter of a historian of African-American religion, Raboteau knew of "Zion" as a place black people yearned to be. She’d heard about it on Bob Marley’s <b>Exodus</b> and in the speeches of Martin Luther King. She understood it as a metaphor for freedom, a spiritual realm rather than a geographical one. Now in Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodu

Author

Raboteau, Emily

Publisher

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press ; [S.l.]: Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802193797

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.85 / 5 (189 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14