The Moon Is Bread

By Naomi Samuel

This is a touching story of a modern-day exodus from Ethiopia to Israel. Insights into the lives of Ethiopian Jewry are presented with great passion and detail. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9652292125
• ISBN13: 9789652292124
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Gefen Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

from the author

I think I must be using the wrong form -I am the author of this book, and I would like to provide a list of my other books, could you please tell me how to do this?Thank you, Naomi

Our Rainbow Children

Quite rightly,Israel has been called a melting pot for immigrants from many diverse countries. Having previously reviewed a couple of books for the Jerusalem Post about Yemenite Jews,I looked forward (and wasn't disappointed ) to learn about another ethnic group-the Ethiopians.But this is a story with a difference. The author is an English lady,the daughter of Holocaust survivors,who fell in love with a young Ethiopian from Gondar,when she was working as a counsellor in an absorption centre.The main thrust of the book is a graphic description of the living conditions of Ethiopian Jews in their villages,the dangerous journey through Sudan to the Promised Land (dressed as a Christian priest),and the fears and longings and Jewish pride of the new immigrants. Arriving in Israel,they had to worry about their families not yet arrived while trying to learn Hebrew and adjust to a new lifestyle.This very readable account pulls no punches and doesn't flinch from discussing the occasional frictions between the young couple because of their different backgrounds,as well as the Ethiopians distrust of the Jewish Agency and the Rabbinate.Zafan (Eddie Murphy to his colleagues) is now a policeman living in Maale Adumin not far from Jerusalem with his wife,Naomi and four children ,Daniel Achenef,Michael Fassil,Yigal Tadele,and Eyal Takele. His mother spent the last eight years of her life suirrounded by her fouty-five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. But Naomi's mother died in England far from her fourteen Israeli grandchildren.I will write no more because you need to read this book and be amazed,horrified,informed and exhilirated.