Africana Jewish journeys : studies in African Judaism

Publication/Creation:: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: Africana Jewish journeys : studies in African Judaism / edited by Marla Brettschneider, Edith Bruder and Magdel Le Roux

Additional Author/Creators:: Brettschneider, Marla, editor
Bruder, Edith, 1948-, editor
Le Roux, Magdel, editor

Subjects:: Jews--Africa--History
Jews--Africa--Identity
Jews--India
Conversion--Judaism
Lemba (South African people)

Table of Contents:: Black Philo-semitism versus racial myths / Edith Bruder -- Make way for the new normative: a new paradigm for approaching African Judaism / Sar Ahmadiel ben Yehuda -- The long way home: living as an African American Jew in a time of turmoil / Carol B. Conaway -- Misrepresentation of Jewish social organization in Kerala, India through models of race, caste and slavery / Barbara C. Johnson -- Anti-colonialism and Jewish women in Madagascar / Marla Brettschneider -- Popular reflections of Israelite genealogy in Madagascar : dissociating bio-racial signifiers from mainstream Jewish religious practice / Nathan P. Devir -- Recapturing Jewish roots in cabo verde: changing diasporic identities / Alma Gottlieb -- Concentric circles of Jewish/Israelite identity in Sub-Saharan Africa / William F.S. Miles -- Lemba and other perspectives on great Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe / Magdel Le Roux -- Naming practices among Vhalemba/Basena of South Africa / Tom Sengani -- A discussion of Lemba traditions, observed and abandoned / Oded Hams Maramwidze / The politics of relocation of Ethiopian Jews / Yvonne Crenshaw -- Judaism is home to Africans / Cornet Alexandre Zouko -- The tradition of Israelite descent among the Pashtuns in India and its ramifications / Navras Jaat Aafreedi.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xxii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm