The Black Jews of Africa
Subtitle: history, religion, identity
By: Edith Bruder.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780195333565
Subjects: Jews -- Africa -- History; Africa -- History; Africa -- Colonial influence -- History; Africa -- Ethnic relations
Description: Addressing the elaboration and development of Jewish identities by Africans, this book presents one by one the different groups of Black Jews from western central, eastern and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a Jewish identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: The lost tribes of Israel; title: Jewish accounts and Christian traditions; title: The mythography of Africa; title: The legend of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; title: Blacks and Jews, the archetypal "others"; title: Encountering and reinventing the Africans and the Jews in the colonial era, fifteenth to nineteenth centuries; title: Appropriating Jewish history by the African diaspora, nineteenth to twentieth centuries; title: Historical narratives of a Jewish presence in sub-Saharan Africa; title: African Jews in western and central Africa; title: African Jews in eastern and southern Africa; title: Epilogue : ancient myths and modern phenomena.