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The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity / Edith Bruder.
LIBRA DS135.A25 B78 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruder, Edith, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Africa--History.
- Jews.
- Ethnic relations.
- Colonial influence.
- History.
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Colonial influence--History.
- Africa--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 283 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The lost tribes of Israel
- Jewish accounts and Christian traditions
- The mythography of Africa
- The legend of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Blacks and Jews, the archetypal "others"
- Encountering and reinventing the Africans and the Jews in the colonial era, fifteenth to nineteenth centuries
- Appropriating Jewish history by the African diaspora, nineteenth to twentieth centuries
- Historical narratives of a Jewish presence in sub-Saharan Africa
- African Jews in western and central Africa
- African Jews in eastern and southern Africa
- Epilogue : ancient myths and modern phenomena.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-275) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195333565
- 019533356X
- OCLC:
- 167764250
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