| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 214 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge Jewish studies series
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RoutledgeCurzon Jewish studies series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The construction of Jewish identities in Africa / Tudor Parfitt -- 2. Giovanni Ellero's manuscript notes on the Falasha of Walqayt / Irma Taddia -- 3. S. Schachnowitz's novel Salomo der Falascha (1923) / Sigrid Sohn -- 4. The Falashas in the German Jewish press in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century / Sigrid Sohn -- 5. Ethiopian Jews in Europe : Taamrat Emmanuel in Italy and Makonnen Levi in England / Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- 6. Abraham Adgeh : the perfect English gentleman / Shalva Weil -- 7. Gete Yirmiahu and Beta Israel's regeneration : a difficult path / Carlo Guandalini -- 8. The Ethiopian Jewish exodus : a myth in creation / Gadi Ben Ezer -- 9. The sacred and secular : the immigration of the black Jews of Ethiopia to Israel / Ruben Schindler -- 10. Birth and death in an Absorption Centre : the process of change among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Sara Minuchin-Itzigsohn, Rina Hirshfeld and Rivka Hanegbi -- 11. The function of musical instruments in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews / Ron Atar -- 12. About the Jewish identity of the Beta Israel / Amaleletch Teferi -- 13. The relationship between the Beta Israel tradition and the Book of Jubilees / Michael Corinaldi. |
| Summary |
With a special focus on Europe and the role of German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, the book investigates the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews, Ethiopian.
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Jews, Ethiopian. |
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Jews, Ethiopian -- Israel.
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Israel. |
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Jews, Ethiopian -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Indexed Term |
Ethiopian Jewry |
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SOSTEJE |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Trevisan Semi, Emanuela.
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Parfitt, Tudor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jews of Ethiopia. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415318386 (DLC) 2004056617 (OCoLC)56367623 |
| ISBN |
0203612167 (electronic book) |
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9780203612163 (electronic book) |
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0415318386 |
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