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Looking for a good book on Ethiopian Jews?
If anyone ever tries to tell you that Jews are racist or that
Israel is an
apartheid country, tell them about the Jews of Ethiopia.
You see, not only are there Black Jews, but Israel rescued the Jews of
Ethiopia and brought them to Israel to live. The actual rescue was incredible.
At one point, Israel was given a single weekend to bring thousands of Jews
crammed into a makeshift compound. The response? Precisely what you'd expect:
absolutely every available airplane was pressed into service in a massive
airlift from Africa to Israel.
In Israel, of course, the Jews from Ethiopia have faced difficulties. Not
because their skin is dark - there are plenty of Jews with various skin shades,
though admittedly not as dark - but because in many cases the older members of
families came with serious health problems, the likes of which Israeli doctors
had to refer to medical textbooks to treat because such diseases were no longer
known in Israel. And mostly because traditional society came to a screeching
halt. The older family members were traditional and did not, for the most part,
have a familiarity with Western society and education. The younger members,
growing up in Israel, experienced the now-familiar gap between their parents and
the secular world around them, a world only they could navigate in.
Generalizations, thankfully, are still only mostly true. Some Ethiopian Jews
came to Israel with university educations. Others have gone on to serve in the
Israel Defense Forces and are integrating into Israeli society. Some are finding
ways to preserve the traditions their families brought with them even as they
become part and parcel of Israel's social fabric.
The books on Ethiopian Jews here tell different parts of this gripping,
complex story.
Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English English-Amharic |
From Falasha to Freedom: An Ethiopian Jew's Journey to Jerusalem |
The Black Jews of Ethiopia |
The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Journey
(Memory and Narrative) |
The Dream Behind Bars: The Story of the Prisoners of Zion from
Ethiopia |
The Moon Is Bread |
The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Journey (Memory
and Narrative) |
A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey |
From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics Behind the Rescue of
Ethiopian Jewry |
When I Left My Village |
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Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia
(Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 13) |
Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia
(Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 13) - Paperback |
The Return |
On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Child's Story |
The Lost Jews: Last of the Ethiopian Falashas |
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For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel (Jewish Folklore and
Anthropology Series) |
My Name Is Rachamim |
The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel
(Falasha to 1920) |
Rescue the Ethiopian Jews!: A Memoir, 1955-1995 |
Day of Delight: A Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia |
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The Beta Israel (Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the
Twentieth Century) |
Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (Ethiopian Series, Monograph
No 17) |
The Two Zions: Reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia |
Redemption Song: The Story of Operation Moses |
The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on Ethiopian
Jews |
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