African Zion
Subtitle: Studies in Black Judaism
By: edited by Edith Bruder and Tudor Parfitt
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781443838023
Subjects: Black Hebrews
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: (De)constructing Black Jews / Tudor Parfitt; title: The proto-history of Igbo Jewish identity from the colonial period to the Biafra War, 1890-1970 / Edith Bruder; title: Igbo nationalism and Jewish identities / Johannes Harnischfeger; title: Israeli foreign policy towards the Igbo / Daniel Lis; title: The House of Israel: Judaism in Ghana / Janice R. Levi; title: The Bayajidda legend and Hausa history / Dierk Lange; title: Lemba traditions: an indispensable tool for interpreting the Old Testament in Africa / Magdel Le Roux; title: Slouschz and the quest for indigenous African Jews / Emanuela Trevisan Semi; title: Longing for Jerusalem among the Beta Israel of Ethiopia / Shalva Weil; title: A colony in Babylon: cooperation and conflict between Black and white Jews in New York, 1930 to 1964 / Jacob S. Dorman; title: Leading through listening: racial tensions in 1968 New  York / Janice W. Fernheimer; title: Emigrationism, afrocentrism, and Hebrew Israelites in the Promised Land / John L. Jackson, Jr.; title: Jewish identity among the Bene Ephraim of India / Yulia Egorova.