The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity / Edith Bruder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruder, Edith, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Africa--History.

Jews.

Africa--History.

Africa.

Africa--Colonial influence--History.

Africa--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Addressing the elaboration and development of Jewish identities by Africans, this book presents one by one the different groups of Black Jews from western central, eastern and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a Jewish identity.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-993455-X

0-19-971541-6