ISBN:
019533356X
,
9780195333565
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 283 S.
,
Kt
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2008
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Bruder, Édith, 1948 - The Black Jews of Africa
DDC:
960/.004924
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Religion
;
Bevölkerungsgruppe
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Beziehung
;
Afrikaner
;
Schwarze
;
Gruppe
;
Institution
;
Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Traditionsbewusstsein
;
Interkulturalität
;
Fremdbild
;
Ausland
;
Afrika südlich der Sahara Religion
;
Judentum
;
Juden
;
Religiöse Bevölkerungsgruppe
;
Beziehungen
;
Afrikaner
;
Schwarze
;
Verhältnis zwischen Gruppen/Institutionen
;
Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Traditionsbewusstsein
;
Interkulturelle Beziehungen
;
Auslandsbild
;
Westafrika
;
Zentralafrika
;
Ostafrika
;
Südliches Afrika
;
Christen Oral History
;
Falasha
;
Africa History
;
Africa Colonial influence
;
History
;
Africa Ethnic relations
;
Westafrika
;
Zentralafrika
;
Ostafrika
;
Südafrika
;
Afrika
;
Judentum
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Juden
;
Kolonialismus
Abstract:
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, 15th to 19th century -- Appropriating Jewish history by the African diaspora, 19th to 20th century -- Historical narratives of a Jewish presence in sub-Saharan Africa -- African Jews in western and central Africa -- African Jews in eastern and southern Africa -- Ancient myths and modern phenomena
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index
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