The Jews of Ethiopia (eBook, ePUB)

The Birth of an Elite
Redaktion: Parfitt, Tudor; Semi, Emanuela Trevisan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With a special focus on Europe and the role of German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, this book investigates the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134367672
• Artikelnr.: 38402475

Autorenporträt

Tudor Parfitt is Reader in Modern Jewish Studies at the Department of the Languages and Culture of Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has written on the history of the Jews in Africa and Asia. Emanuela Trevisan Semi is Professor of Modern Jewish and Hebrew Studies at the university of Venice, Italy. She is the president of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry (SOSTEJE) and president of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Mediterranean (MERIFOR).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Construction of Jewish Identities in Africa 2. Giovanni Ellero's
Manuscript Notes on the Falasha of Walqayt 3. S. Schachnowitz's Novel
Salomo Der Falascha (1923) 4. The Falashas in the German Jewish Press in
Germany: During the First Half of the Twentieth Century 5. Ethiopian Jews
in Europe: Taamrat Emmanuel in Italy and Makonnen Levi in England 6.
Abraham Adgeh: The Perfect English Gentleman 7. Gete Yirmiahu and Beta
Israel's Regeneration: A Difficult Path 8. The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: A
Myth in Creation 9. The Sacred and Secular: The Immigration of the Black
Jews of Ethiopia to Israel 10. Birth and Death in an Absorption Centre: The
Process of Change among Ethiopian Jews in Israel 11. The Function of
Musical Instruments in the Liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews 12. About the
Jewish Identity of the Beta Israel 13. The Relationship between the Beta
Israel Tradition and the Book of Jubilees