Judah Passow: A Portrait of Contemporary Jewish Life, The Jewish Museum - review - Visual Arts - Arts

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The private, domestic scenes - a mother and new baby, an anxious bride - reveal the trust given to the photographer and confirm the significance of family in the title.

Working in the black and white Magnum tradition, Passow reveals an exceptional compositional sense.

Juxtaposing the orthodox and the liberal, he plays with controversial contrasts - the bare-legged girl outside Kosher Kingdom in Golders Green, the yeshiva students in a ceremonial dance, the mohican-ed punk talking to an animated older man during a klezmer festival.

Politics are never far away in ironic and poignant scenes, from the reform rabbi and a Muslim woman at an interfaith seminar to the charitable clinic where Jewish doctors treat Darfur refugees - a reminder of the welcome their parents and grandparents received here.

As the broadcaster Jonathan Friedland put it: "Today's Jews are out and proud!"

Until June 5 (020 7284 7384, jewishmuseum.org.uk)

Judah Passow: No Place Like Home, A Portrait of Contemporary Jewish Life
The Jewish Museum
Raymond Burton House
129-131 Albert Street
NW1 7NB