Charles London
"Jack Kerouac meets Jackie Mason"--Newsweek
In his first book, One Day The Soldiers Came, Charles London takes us into the world of refugee children, introducing these remarkable young people and celebrating their unique skills for survival and reflection. Through the stories and drawings of children from Congo, Burma, Kosovo, Sudan, and Rwanda we come to understand how these children experience, understand, and are shaped by the conflicts around them."
His second book, Far From Zion, was a finalist for the 2009 National Jewish Book Award. In this globe-trotting journey, he explores some of the most far flung pockets Jewish communities in the world, examining their relationship to faith, to home, to Israel, and to each other, and in the process comes to discover his connection to his faith and the Jewish people.
“In his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the eighteenth-century British historian Edward Gibbon describes the scene of Romans fleeing the city of Nisibis in A.D. 363 after it was handed over to the Persians......Gibbon could have been describing a photograph from the 1994 genocide in Rawanda or the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. He could have been describing any number of forced migrations that have occurred all over the world in the last ten years, even the last five. The picture has not changed much since the fourth century.”