Edith Bruder

The Black Jews of Africa History, Religion, Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Black Jews of Africa, Edith Bruder presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in western, central, eastern, and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a distinct Jewish identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780199934553
• ISBN-10: 019993455X
• Artikelnr.: 35331118

Autorenporträt

Edith Bruder is a Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and in the French National Center for Scientific Research.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Lost Tribes in Twenty-first-Century Africa
* Part I: Prehistory
* 1: : The Lost Tribes of Israel
* 2: : Jewish Accounts and Christian Traditions
* 3: : The Mythography of Africa
* 4: : The Legend of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
* Part II: Black Judaism: Genesis
* 5: : Blacks and Jews the Archetypal "Others"
* 6: : Encountering and Reinventing the Africans and the Jews in the
Colonial Era, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
* 7: : Appropriating Jewish History by the African Diaspora, Nineteenth
to Twentieth Centuries
* Part III: Africa, Judaism, and African "Jews"
* 8: : Historical Narratives of a Jewish Presence in Sub-Saharan Africa
* 9: : African Jews in Western and Central Africa
* 10: : African Jews in Easten and Southern Africa
* Epilogue: Ancient Myths and Modern Phenomena
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index