Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 online resource (xii, 283 p.) : maps.

Uniform title

1. Black Jews of Africa (Online)

Alternative title

1. Black Jews of Africa (Online)

Subject

1. Jews -- Africa -- History
2. Africa -- History
3. Africa -- Colonial influence -- History
4. Africa -- Ethnic relations

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Bruder, Edith, 1948-

Title

1. The Black Jews of Africa [electronic resource] : history, religion, identity / Edith Bruder.

Imprint

1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2007035833