The Beta Israel Falasha In Ethiopia
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The Beta Israel
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Author : Steven B Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1992-07-01
The Beta Israel written by Steven B Kaplan and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-01 with Religion categories.
This “balanced and well informed” historical study is “a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha” (Foreign Affairs). The origin of the “Black Jews” of Ethiopia has long been a source of fascination and controversy. The culmination of almost a decade of research, The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of the history of this unique community. Author Steven Kaplan seeks to demythologize the history of the Falasha and to consider them in the wider context of Ethiopian history and culture. This marks a clear departure from previous studies that have viewed them from the external perspective of Jewish history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including the Beta Israel’s own literature and oral traditions, Kaplan demonstrates that they are not a "lost Jewish tribe," but rather an ethnic group which emerged in Ethiopia between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Indeed, the name "Falasha," their religious hierarchy, sacred texts, and economic specialization can all be dated to this period. Among the subjects the book addresses are their links with Ethiopian Christianity, the medieval legends concerning their existence, their wars with the Ethiopian emperors, their relegation to the status of a despised semi-caste, their encounters with European missionaries, and the impact of the Great Famine of 1888–1892.
The Beta Israel In Ethiopia And Israel
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Author : Tudor Parfitt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-19
The Beta Israel In Ethiopia And Israel written by Tudor Parfitt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Social Science categories.
For decade 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 the fascination has continued and and new factors are now being discussed. Written by the leading scholars in the field the essays in this collection examine the history, music, art, anthropology and current situations of the Ethopian Jews. Issues examined include their integration into Middle Eastern society, contacts between the Falasha and the State of Israel how the Falasha became Jews in the first place.
The Evolution Of The Ethiopian Jews
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Author : James Quirin
language : en
Publisher: Tsehai Publishers
Release Date : 2010-11
The Evolution Of The Ethiopian Jews written by James Quirin and has been published by Tsehai Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with History categories.
The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews is the most thorough scholarly study of Beta Israel history within Ethiopia yet written. It traces the development of the Ethiopian Jews from their controversial origins to the beginning of the twentieth century. The author places their evolution firmly within the Ethiopian social, ethnic, religious, political and historical context, using analytical tools such as caste, class and ethnicity. Quirin shows how the Ethiopian Jews struggled to maintain their identity in the face of political, military, economic and religious external pressures from the Ethiopian state and the dominant Christian society from the fourteenth through the early seventeenth centuries. He then analyzes their loss of political independence and partial assimilation into the society and state of the Gondar dynasty during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They faced new challenges and influences from European Protestant missionaries and western Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Quirin employs an exhaustive use of Ethiopian and European written sources, as well as an original and careful use of internal oral traditions obtained in interviews with scores of Beta Israel and other informants.
The Beta Israel In Ethiopia And Israel
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Author : Tudor Parfitt
language : am
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
The Beta Israel In Ethiopia And Israel written by Tudor Parfitt and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Written by the leading scholars in the field the essays in this collection examine the history, music, art, anthropology and current situations of the Ethopian Jews.
Falasha Anthology
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Author : Wolf Leslau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Falasha Anthology written by Wolf Leslau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Literary Criticism categories.
""Falasha Anthology is the first English translation of specimens of Old testament texts and prayers which are representative of Falasha religious literature. . . . Leslau's book points scholars of Falasha social history toward the analysis of oral literature and documentary materials, notably Ethiopic manuscripts, as a method for reconstructing past political events and the nature of structural transformations of Falasha society.""-William A. Shack, Reviews in Anthropology
The Beta Israel Falasha In Ethiopia
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Author : Steven Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1992
The Beta Israel Falasha In Ethiopia written by Steven Kaplan and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The origin of the "Black Jews" of Ethiopia has long been a source of fascination and controversy. Their condition and future continues to generate debate. The culmination of almost a decade of research, The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia marks the publication of the first book-length scholarly study of the history of this unique community.
For Our Soul
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Author : Teshome Wagaw
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-05
For Our Soul written by Teshome Wagaw and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Social Science categories.
For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel. Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia and its ensuing economic and political upheavals, compounded by the brutality of the military regime and the willingness—after years of refusal—of the Israeli government to receive them as bona fide Jews entitled to immigrate to that country. As the sole Jewish community from sub-Sahara Africa in Israel, the Ethiopian Jews have met with unique difficulties. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, also known as Falasha or Beta Israel, experienced in Israel.
The Hyena People
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Author : Hagar Salamon
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-12-07
The Hyena People written by Hagar Salamon and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-07 with Religion categories.
The Jews (Falasha) of northwestern Ethiopia are a unique example of a Jewish group living within an ancient, non-Western, predominantly Christian society. Hagar Salamon presents the first in-depth study of this group, called the "Hyena people" by their non-Jewish neighbors. Based on more than 100 interviews with Ethiopian immigrants now living in Israel, Salamon's book explores the Ethiopia within as seen through the lens of individual memories and expressed through ongoing dialogues. It is an ethnography of the fantasies and fears that divide groups and, in particular, Jews and non-Jews. Recurring patterns can be seen in Salamon's interviews, which thematically touch on religious disputations, purity and impurity, the concept of blood, slavery and conversion, supernatural powers, and the metaphors of clay vessels, water, and fire. The Hyena People helps unravel the complex nature of religious coexistence in Ethiopia and also provides important new tools for analyzing and evaluating inter-religious, interethnic, and especially Jewish-Christian relations in a variety of cultural and historical contexts.
The Jews Of Ethiopia
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Author : Tudor Parfitt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
The Jews Of Ethiopia written by Tudor Parfitt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Education categories.
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.