Afro-Jewish encounters
Subtitle: from Timbuktu to the Indian Ocean and beyond
By: William F. S. Miles ; with a foreword by Ali A. Mazrui
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781558765818
Subjects: Jews; Judaism; Travel; Description and travel; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229).
Table of contents: title: Part I. Preface and acknowledgments: the Africanization of an Ashkenazic Jew; title: Jewish in West Africa and West African in Israel --; title: Legacy of the rabbi of Timbuktu in the age of Al-Qaeda: an interview with Ismaël Diadié Haïdara --; title: Semitic surprises in Sufi Senegal --; title: Jewish in Muslim Black Africa --; title: Black African Muslim in the Jewish state: lessons of colonial Nigeria for contemporary Jerusalem --; title: "Take me to your leader": a Jerusalem story --; title: T/sadaka by the Sahara: birth gifts, Bar Mitzvah projects, and the rabbi's well --; title: Luxury matzah --; title: Reburying my father in Africa --; title: Kaddish for my Muslim chief --; title: Hanukkah in Hausaland (with Arielle P. Miles) --; title: Horse inheritance, Jewish soul --; title: Passover reflections on a Saharan genocide --; title: The Jewishness of Nehemia Levtzion's legacy --; title: Among the "Jubos" on the Festival of Lights -- -- Part II. Beyond West Africa; title: African Judaism, race, romance, and my mother: a review of Edith Bruder's the Black Jews of Africa and Richard Hull's Jews and Judaism in African history --; title: Notes from a haunting conference: Rwanda -- Israelite in Kenya: father-daughter ruminations (with Arielle P. Miles) --; title: Holocaust education in an African museum: reflections following a 2002 visit to South Africa --; title: Jewish in Mauritius: from Hebrew to Hindi --; title: Jews in paradise: Indian Ocean encounters on Réunion and Île Maurice --; title: Interned and buried: British Mauritius and the Holocaust --; title: French West Indies I: the Jews file --; title: French West Indies II: Aimé Césaire and my Jewish question --; title: The "White house" of Judaism: under renovation, new hues may apply --; title: Ethiopian in the Negev: a minor rescue story --; title: Tropical seders.