INTRODUCTION; LOST TRIBES IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY AFRICA; PART I: PREHISTORY; PART II: BLACK JUDAISM: GENESIS; PART III: AFRICA, JUDAISM, AND AFRICAN "JEWS"; EPILOGUE: ANCIENT MYTHS AND MODERN PHENOMENA; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Edith Bruder is a Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and in the French National Center for Scientific Research.
"The Black Jews of Africa is an excellent introduction to a complex
and controversial subject about African Jews and the Ten Lost
Tribes. Dr. Bruder rightly leaves to others the thorny question of
Jewish identity. Instead, using a wide range of bibliography that
covers the field, she concentrates on describing the beliefs,
customs, and history of the various African peoples and communities
that claim Jewish identity. I recommend it highly to those
interested in understanding modern Jewish history and society
worldwide." --Ephraim Isaac, Director of the Institute of Semitic
Studies, Princeton
"This ambitious and passionate work explores the fascination that
Jewish history and identity have held for the people of Africa. A
welcome and challenging addition to the discourse on the lost
tribes of Israel, it should be read by anyone interested in Jewish
history, African history, and the sociology of religion."
--Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Associate Professor, Ca' Foscari
University, Italy, and author of Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews
of Ethiopia
"Going far beyond the familiar literature on the Falasha, Bruder's
book makes a real contribution to understanding the nature of
African Judaism and, much more important, how this phenomenon has
been regarded in the West. The book presents a major case study in
the social construction of religious identities." --Philip Jenkins,
author of God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's
Religious Crisis
"Edith Bruder's study of Black African Jews deserves critical
acclaim for focusing on a topic in African history that has been
woefully neglected as a primary topic of discourse. Until now, few
scholars have delved into the study of Jews within the larger
context of Africa's past. ...[T]he book should be recognized in the
historiography as the work that permanently widened Africa's
historical lens." --African Studies Review
"...the book should be recognized in the historiography as the work
that permanently widened Africa's historical lens."--Kristen
Glasgow, University of California
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