For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel

by Teshome G. Wagaw

Book Overview

Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia and its ensuing economic and political upheavals, compounded by the brutality of the military regime and the willingness--after years of refusal--of the Israeli government to receive them as bona fide Jews entitled to immigrate to that country. As the sole Jewish community from sub-Sahara Africa in Israel, the Ethiopian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814344100
• ISBN13: 9780814344101
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and A
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"