The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite

by Tudor Parfitt

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415593050
• ISBN13: 9780415593052
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"