This is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, a few years after their migration from rural Ethiopia t
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In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews re
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This book investigates the formation of the Jewish cultural profile of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church (EOTC), ar
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Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traum
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After forced migration to a country where immigrants form an ethnic majority, why do some individuals support exclusivis
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Explores the complex relationship between Israel and the Diaspora Jewish identity Combining political theory and sociol
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This monograph traces how ‘Jewish’ elements were introduced into and disseminated throughout the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwa
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Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the Unit
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Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autono
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Evolving Nationalism examines how the idea of Israel as a nation-state has developed within Zionist and Israeli discours
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