Research Catalog

Title

Saving the lost tribe : the rescue and redemption of the Ethiopian Jews / Asher Naim.

Author

Naim, Asher.

Publication

New York : Ballantine Books, 2003.

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Details

Description

xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"For nearly three thousand years, the black Jews of Ethiopia - known as the Falashas - maintained their faith and their identity in the face of drought, famine, and tribal war. They were indeed the lost tribe, tracing their ancestry to King Solomon and the queen of Sheba. Then in May 1991, these Ethiopian Jews staged a miraculous exodus. With Ethiopia exploding around them in brutal civil war, some fourteen thousand Falashas were safely airlifted to Jerusalem by the Israeli air force over the course of twenty-five harrowing hours. Told by the Israeli ambassador who made it happen, this book is the story of that incredible rescue - as well as the extraordinary history of the Falashas, the remarkable people whose faith never wavered, even when confronted with enormous atrocities."--Jacket.

Subject

• Naim, Asher
• Naim, Asher
• 1991
• Jews > Ethiopia > History
• Operation Solomon, 1991
• Diplomats > Israel > Biography
• Ethiopia
• Beta Israel
• refugees
• Diplomatic relations
• Diplomats
• Ethnic relations
• Jews
• Evakuierung
• Jews > Ethiopia > History
• Operation Solomon, 1991
• Diplomats > Israel > Biography
• Israel > Foreign relations > Ethiopia
• Ethiopia > Foreign relations > Israel
• Israel > Ethnic relations
• Ethiopia
• Israel
• Israel > Foreign relations > Ethiopia
• Ethiopia > Foreign relations > Israel
• Israel > Ethnic relations
• Falascha

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.
• History.

Note

• "A Peekamoose book."

Contents

• [A Drop of Blood] Bubot -- Chuppalogia -- The Hyena Feeders -- Five Hundred Birr -- The Forbearance of Job -- Phantom Fighters -- Leaks -- A Glass of Water -- A Drop of Blood -- Carte Blanche -- Two Lions -- Tripartite -- Pranzo -- Red Light -- Onions and Herbs -- The Kes of Kes -- Gorad Gorad.
• [Operation Solomon] Safari -- The Northern Kingdom -- Ambover -- The Last Sacrifice -- Minion -- Horsehair -- Cornered -- Scuds Over Tel Aviv -- A Thousand and One Nights -- The Falling House -- Hondeling -- The Escape -- Ipso Facto -- Operation Solomon.
• [The Land of Milk and Honey] Aftermath -- Kickback -- Resolution 3374 -- Kushi -- Blood Ties -- Zion.

ISBN

• 0345450817
• 9780345450814

LCCN

2002034466

OCLC

• ocm50808990
• 50808990
• SCSB-14415701

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library