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.
Author(s): Tudor Parfitt
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 232
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
FIGURES......Page 10
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
1 THE CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH IDENTITIES IN AFRICA......Page 20
2 GIOVANNI ELLERO’S MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON THE FALASHA OF WALQAYT......Page 62
3 S. SCHACHNOWITZ’S NOVEL SALOMO DER FALASCHA (1923)......Page 72
4 THE FALASHAS IN THE GERMAN JEWISH PRESS IN GERMANY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 84
5 ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN EUROPE......Page 93
6 ABRAHAM ADGEH......Page 120
7 GETE YIRMIAHU AND BETA ISRAEL’S REGENERATION......Page 131
8 THE ETHIOPIAN JEWISH EXODUS......Page 141
9 THE SACRED AND SECULAR......Page 150
10 BIRTH AND DEATH IN AN ABSORPTION CENTRE......Page 161
11 THE FUNCTION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE LITURGY OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS......Page 174
12 ABOUT THE JEWISH IDENTITY OF THE BETA ISRAEL......Page 192
13 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BETA ISRAEL TRADITION AND THE BOOK OF JUBILEES......Page 212
INDEX......Page 224
