Falasha anthology / translated from Ethiopic sources with an introduction by Wolf Leslau Brandeis University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leslau, Wolf.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Yale Judaica series ; v. 6.

Yale Judaica series ; v. 6

Language:

English

Ethiopic

Subjects (All):

Judaism.

Jews, Ethiopian.

Ethiopic literature--Translations into English.

Ethiopic literature.

English literature--Translations from Ethiopic.

English literature.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xliii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 222 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, [1951]

Contents:

Introduction. Falasha research; The Falashas today; Religious life; The literature of the Falashas; History and origin

Anthology. Teezaza sanbat; Abba Elijah; Book of the angels; Baruch; Apocalypse of Gorgorios; The testament of Abraham; The death of Moses; Prayers.

Notes:

"Published for Judaica Research at Yale University on the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation."

"This book offers a cross section of the sacred literature of the Falashas, translated for the first time into English from Ethiopic sources."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-[190]) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 200878

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok April 1952".

OCLC:

610586