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Title

The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel : studies on Ethiopian Jews / edited by Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi.

Publication

Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Ḥevrah le-ḥeḳer Yehude Etyopyah
• Parfitt, Tudor.
• Trevisan Semi, Emanuela.

Description

xiii, 304 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"For decades the Falashas - the Black Jews of Ethiopia - have fascinated scholars. Are they really Jews and in what sense? How can their origins be explained? Since the Falashas' transfer to Israel in the much publicised Israeli air lifts - Operation Moses and Operation Solomon - this fascination has continued and now other factors are being discussed. This collection of papers on the history, music, art, anthropology and current situation of the Ethiopian Jews has been written by the leading scholars in the field."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Israel > Ethnic relations
• Jews, Ethiopian > Congresses
• Jews, Ethiopian > Israel > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at a conference of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry (SOSTEJE) held in Jerusalem and Beersheva in 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Rabbi Nahoum's anthropological mission to Ethiopia / Tudor Parfitt -- From Wolleqa to Florence / Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- The life and death of Solomon Isaac / Shalva Weil -- The impact of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia on the Beta Israel / Daniel Summerfield -- Some unpublished documents relating to the twentieth century history of the Beta Israel in Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing -- The case of the Falas Mura / Daniel Friedmann -- Ethiopian dynastic marriage and the Beta Israel / Richard Pankhurst -- All in the family / Don Seeman -- Everyday resistance and the study of Ethiopian Jews / Steven Kaplan -- Israeli women of Ethiopian descent / Eva Leitman and Elisabeth Weinbaum -- Fertility decline and changes in the life course among Ethiopian Jewish women / Jennifer Phillips Davids -- Women in history and historiography / Kirsten Holert -- Identity reformulation among Ethiopian immigrant soldiers / Malka Shabtay.
• The Beta Israel band of Porachat Ha Tikva / Marilyn Herman -- Dance at the Ethiopian disco / Dawn Lille Horwitz -- Of names, amulets and movies / Lisa Anteby -- Beta Israel prayers / Margaret Hayon -- The formal organisation of the Beta Israel liturgy : substance and performance : literary structure / F. Alvarez-Péreyre and S. Ben-Dor -- The formal organisation of the Beta Israel liturgy : substance and performance : musical structure / Simha Arom and Olivier Tourny -- Differences between the Amharic dialects of Gondar and Addid Ababa / Anbessa Tefarra -- Divination as prevention of illness and other life problems / Anita Nudelman -- Sickness and medicine / Marian Reiff -- Idioms and narratives of mental health problems among Ethiopian Jewish patients in Israel / R. Youngmann, S. Minuchin-Itzigsohn, and M. Zere -- The long journey of the young Beta Israel from lasta / Beniamin Mekuria -- The Epistle of Elias / Itzhak Grinfeld.

ISBN

0700710922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library