Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest / Joseph W. Scott and Solomon A. Getahun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Joseph W.

Contributor:

Getahun, Solomon Addis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethiopian Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--Social conditions--20th century.

Ethiopian Americans.

Social conditions.

Seattle (Wash.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Seattle (Wash.).

Washington (State)--Seattle.

Physical Description:

xliii, 125 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances, they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness, and death. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Seattle's challenges

From sojourners to asylum-seekers

Falls from grace

Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship

Schooling their children

Changing husband-wife relations

Use and abuse of welfare

Victors and vanquished

Starting church congregations

From elation to alienation

Dying and memorializing

To return or not return?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

141284987X

9781412849876

OCLC:

818735042