ABSTRACT

This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such issues as the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite and the transformation of the identity from Ethiopian Falashas to the Jews of Ethiopia during the twentieth century.

chapter |27 pages

Ethiopian Jews in Europe

Taamrat Emmanuel in Italy and Makonnen Levi in England

chapter |11 pages

Abraham Adgeh

The perfect English gentleman

chapter |9 pages

The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus

A myth in creation

chapter |11 pages

The Sacred and Secular

The immigration of the black Jews of Ethiopia to Israel

chapter |13 pages

Birth and Death in an Absorption Centre

The process of change among Ethiopian Jews in Israel