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One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism » (Reprint)

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Authors: Don Seeman
ISBN-13: 9780813549361, ISBN-10: 0813549361
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Don Seeman

Don Seeman is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Book Synopsis

The Feres Mura, Ethiopian Jews whose families converted to Christianity during the nineteenth century and then reasserted their Jewish identity in the late twentieth century, still await acceptance by Israel. Since the 1980s, they have sought homecoming through the state's right of return law. Instead of a welcoming embrace, Israel's government and society regard them with reticence and suspicion. Using more over ten years of ethnographical research, One People, One Blood expertly documents this tenuous relationship and the challenges facing the Feres Mura.

Table of Contents

1 A Death in Addis Ababa

2 The Question of Kinship

3 Purity of Heart

4 Returning to Judaism

5 Absorption

6 Blood and Terror

7 The "Feres Mura" Dilemma

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