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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parfitt, Tudor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Series:Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Subjects:
Jews > Africa > History.
African Americans > Relations with Jews.
African American Jews > History.
Africa > History.
Africa > Colonial influence > History.
Africa > Ethnic relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • The color of Jews
  • Lost tribes of Israel in Africa
  • Ham's children
  • Judaic practices and superior stock
  • Half white and half black
  • The emergence of Black Jews in the United States
  • Divine geography and Israelite identities
  • The internalization of the Israelite myth
  • History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews.