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  • The Jews of Ethiopia

    The Birth of an Elite

    Edited by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    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 ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Judaising Movements

    Studies in the Margins of Judaism in Modern Times

    Edited by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Semi ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion. This volume analyzes the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as proselytising but which at certain points was struggling to heed the Prophets and become a light unto the Gentiles' and the attraction for many different peoples of the rooted historicity of Judaism and by the symbolic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel

    Studies on the Ethiopian Jews

    by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi ...
    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 ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    A riveting scientific detective story crossed with a provocative and controversial re-examination of the meaning of race, ethnicity, and religion.Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in Abraham's Children bestselling author Jon Entine vividly brings to life the profound human ... Read more

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

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  • Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

    by Tudor Parfitt ...
    Tudor explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were cast as black and black Africans were cast as Jews, he reveals a complex interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Burden of Silence

    Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes

    by Cengiz Sisman ...
    The Burden of Silence is the first monograph on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century up to the present day. Initiated by the Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Sevi, the movement combined Jewish, Islamic, and Christian religious and social elements and became a transnational phenomenon, spreading througout Afro-Euroasia. ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Languages of the Jews

    A Sociolinguistic History

    by Bernard Spolsky ...
    Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing. Jewish historical sociolinguistics is rich in unanswered questions: when does a language become 'Jewish'? What was the origin of Yiddish? How much Hebrew did the average Jew know over the centuries? How was Hebrew re-established as a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Imperial Perceptions of Palestine

    British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times

    by Lorenzo Kamel ...
    The Palestine Exploration Fund, established in 1865, is the oldest organization created specifically for the study of the Levant. It helped to spur evangelical tourism to the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which in turn generated a huge array of literature that presented Palestine as a 'Holy Land', in which local populations were often portrayed as a simple appendix to well-known ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Sacred Treasure-The Cairo Genizah

    The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic

    by Rabbi Mark S. Glickman ...
    Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in an old Egyptian synagogue—the amazing story of one of the most important discoveries in modern religious scholarship.In 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, and there found the largest treasure trove of medieval and early manuscripts ever discovered. He had entered the ... Read more

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  • The Beta Israel

    Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century

    by Steven B Kaplan ...
    Series series Falasha in Ethiopia
    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 ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emissaries from the Holy Land

    The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century

    by Matthias B. Lehmann ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    For Jews in every corner of the world, the Holy Land has always been central. But that conviction was put to the test in the eighteenth century when Jewish leaders in Palestine and their allies in Istanbul sent rabbinic emissaries on global fundraising missions. From the shores of the Mediterranean to the port cities of the Atlantic seaboard, from the Caribbean to India, these emmissaries ... Read more

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