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Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel: The Homeland Postponed
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Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel: The Homeland Postponed Hardcover - 2001

by Tanya Schwarz


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This is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, a few years after their migration from rural Ethiopia to urban Israel. For the Beta Israel, the most significant issue is not, as is commonly assumed, adaptation to modern society, but rather 'belonging' in their new homeland, and the loss of control they are experiencing over their lives and those of their children. Ethiopian Jewish immigrants resist those aspects of the dominant society which they dislike: they reject normative Jewish practices and uphold Beta Israel religious and cultural ones, ideologically counteract disparaging Israeli attitudes, develop strong ethnic bonds and engage in overt forms of resistance. The difficulties of the present are also overcome by creating a perfect past and an ideal future: in what the author calls 'the homeland postponed', all Jews will be united in a colour-blind world of material plenty and purity.

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An Ethiopian Jewish priest blesses the holy bread at the celebration of a boy's circumcision: 'May He enable us to eat and may He not separate us from one another.'

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  • Title Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel: The Homeland Postponed
  • Author Tanya Schwarz
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 298
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Richmond, Surrey
  • Date April 27, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780700712380 / 0700712380
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 6.02 x 1.11 in (21.64 x 15.29 x 2.82 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Israel, Immigranten
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.89
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