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Jews of Ethiopia : the birth of an elite / edited by Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi.

Contributor(s): Trevisan Semi, Emanuela | Parfitt, Tudor
Material type: TextTextSeries: RoutledgeCurzon Jewish studies series: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xvii, 214 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415318386; 9780415318389Subject(s): Jews, Ethiopian | Jews, Ethiopian -- Israel | Jews, Ethiopian -- BiographyDDC classification: 963/.004924 LOC classification: DS135.E75 | J495 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The construction of Jewish identities in Africa / Tudor Parfitt -- Giovanni Ellero's manuscript notes on the Falasha of Walqayt / Irma Taddia -- S. Schachnowitz's novel Salomo der Falascha (1923) / Sigrid Sohn -- The Falashas in the German Jewish press in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century / Sigrid Sohn -- Ethiopian Jews in Europe: Taamrat Emmanuel in Italy and Makonnen Levi in England / Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- Abraham Adgeh: the perfect English gentleman / Shalva Weil -- Gete Yirmiahu and Beta Israel's regeneration: a difficult path / Carlo Guandalini -- The Ethiopian Jewish exodus: a myth in creation / Gadi Ben Ezer -- The sacred and secular: the immigration of the black Jews of Ethiopia to Israel / Ruben Schindler -- Birth and death in an absorption centre: the process of change among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Sara Minuchin-Itzigsohn, Rina Hirshfeld and Rivka Hanegbi -- The function of musical instruments in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews / Ron Atar -- About the Jewish identity of the Beta Israel / Amaleletch Teferi -- The relationship between the Beta Israel tradition and the Book of Jubilees / Michael Corinaldi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The construction of Jewish identities in Africa / Tudor Parfitt -- Giovanni Ellero's manuscript notes on the Falasha of Walqayt / Irma Taddia -- S. Schachnowitz's novel Salomo der Falascha (1923) / Sigrid Sohn -- The Falashas in the German Jewish press in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century / Sigrid Sohn -- Ethiopian Jews in Europe: Taamrat Emmanuel in Italy and Makonnen Levi in England / Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- Abraham Adgeh: the perfect English gentleman / Shalva Weil -- Gete Yirmiahu and Beta Israel's regeneration: a difficult path / Carlo Guandalini -- The Ethiopian Jewish exodus: a myth in creation / Gadi Ben Ezer -- The sacred and secular: the immigration of the black Jews of Ethiopia to Israel / Ruben Schindler -- Birth and death in an absorption centre: the process of change among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Sara Minuchin-Itzigsohn, Rina Hirshfeld and Rivka Hanegbi -- The function of musical instruments in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews / Ron Atar -- About the Jewish identity of the Beta Israel / Amaleletch Teferi -- The relationship between the Beta Israel tradition and the Book of Jubilees / Michael Corinaldi.

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