The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity
by Edith Bruder
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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.Tags
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Edith Bruder is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) and President of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry (ISSAJ).
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 960.004924 — History & geography History of Africa History of Africa
- LCC
- DS135 .A25 .B78 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 4
