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The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite »

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Authors: Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Tudor Parfitt
ISBN-13: 9780415318389, ISBN-10: 0415318386
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Tudor Parfitt

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).

Book Synopsis

This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such issues as the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite and the transformation of the identity from Ethiopian Falashas to the Jews of Ethiopia during the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

1The construction of Jewish identities in Africa1
2Giovanni Ellero's manuscript notes on the Falasha of Walqayt43
3S. Schachnowitz's novel Salomo der Falascha (1923)53
4The Falashas in the German Jewish press in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century65
5Ethiopian Jews in Europe : Taamrat Emmanuel in Italy and Makonnen Levi in England74
6Abraham Adgeh : the perfect English gentleman101
7Gete Yirmiahu and Beta Israel's regeneration : a difficult path112
8The Ethiopian Jewish exodus : a myth in creation122
9The sacred and secular : the immigration of the black Jews of Ethiopia to Israel131
10Birth and death in an absorption centre : the process of change among Ethiopian Jews in Israel142
11The function of musical instruments in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews155
12About the Jewish identity of the Beta Israel173
13The relationship between the Beta Israel tradition and the Book of Jubilees193

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