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


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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, the book investigates such issues as the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish e;lite and the transformation of the identity from Ethiopian Falashas to the Jews of Ethiopia during the twentieth century.




Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Jews, Ethiopian.
Jews, Ethiopian -- Israel.
Jews, Ethiopian -- Biography.