Product Description: This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such issues as the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite and the transformation of the identity from Ethiopian Falashas to the Jews of Ethiopia during the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Over a 15-year period beginning in the mid-1970s, more than 40,000 Ethiopian Jews migrated from Africa and resettled in Israel. The return of the "Black Jews" to Israel is one of the most unique phenomena of modern day Black history for two reasons: first, the Ethiopian Jews are the only group of Africans practicing Judaism and secondly, they are the only group of Africans to immigrate to a predominantly white society for religious reasons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text seeks to describe the transitions endured by Jews living in Ethiopia who made their way to Israel. It looks at the historical background and the range of issues which have affected this group of people. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ethiopian Jews have been immigrating to Israel in ever increasing numbers since 1979. This volume describes the phenomenon and explains the issues related to the Ethiopians' absorption by Israeli society. The authors explore the immigrant's lives as Ethiopians, the experience of other waves of immigrants to Israel, and applicability of theoretical issues deriving mass immigration in the experience of other societies...read more

Traces the history of the Ethiopian Jews and chronicles the progress of Operation Moses, the secret rescue mission that brought these isolated, persecuted black Jews out of Ethiopia to Israel

Tells the story behind the airlifts of nearly ten thousand Ethiopian Jews from Africa to Israel in 1984 and 1985