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

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Addressing the elaboration and development of Jewish identities by Africans, this book presents one by one the different groups of Black Jews from western central, eastern and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a...

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Main Author: Bruder, Edith, 1948-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Jews > Africa > History.
Africa > History.
Africa > Colonial influence > History.
Africa > Ethnic relations.
Juifs > Afrique > Histoire.
Afrique > Histoire.
Afrique > Influence coloniale > Histoire.
Afrique > Relations interethniques.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Colonial influence
Ethnic relations
Jews
Africa
Identität
Subsaharisches Afrika
Juden.
Jews > Africa > Identity.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Addressing the elaboration and development of Jewish identities by Africans, this book presents one by one the different groups of Black Jews from western central, eastern and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a Jewish identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index.
ISBN:9780199715411
0199715416
9780199868889
0199868883