Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition

by Steven Kaplan and Ruth Westheimer

On May 25, 1991, a Boeing 747 packed with over 1,000 Ethiopians left the besieged capital of Addis Ababa for Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. In the next 36 hours, 13,000 more Ethiopians were to depart for Israel in what became known as Operation Solomon. After generations of praying and years of diplomatic wrangling, Ethiopia's Jews were at last going to the Promised Land. In the last twelve years, 40,000 Ethiopian Jews have left their native land...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814792537
• ISBN13: 9780814792537
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"