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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas / Tudor Parfitt.
LIBRA DS135.A25 P368 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parfitt, Tudor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Africa--History.
- Jews.
- African Americans--Relations with Jews.
- African Americans.
- African American Jews--History.
- African American Jews.
- Ethnic relations.
- Colonial influence.
- History.
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Colonial influence--History.
- Africa--Ethnic relations.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 225 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- The color of Jews
- Lost tribes of Israel in Africa
- Ham's children
- Judaic practices and superior stock
- Half white and half black
- The emergence of Black Jews in the United States
- Divine geography and Israelite identities
- The internalization of the Israelite myth
- History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674066984
- 0674066987
- OCLC:
- 792887111
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