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The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruder, Edith, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Jews > Africa > History.
Africa > History.
Africa > Colonial influence > History.
Africa > Ethnic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • The lost tribes of Israel
  • Jewish accounts and Christian traditions
  • The mythography of Africa
  • The legend of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
  • Blacks and Jews, the archetypal "others"
  • Encountering and reinventing the Africans and the Jews in the colonial era, fifteenth to nineteenth centuries
  • Appropriating Jewish history by the African diaspora, nineteenth to twentieth centuries
  • Historical narratives of a Jewish presence in sub-Saharan Africa
  • African Jews in western and central Africa
  • African Jews in eastern and southern Africa
  • Epilogue : ancient myths and modern phenomena.