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Judaising Movements

Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Semi
Judaising Movements Book PDF

Author : Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Semi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136860348

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The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion. This volume analyzes the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as proselytising but which at certain points was struggling to heed the Prophets and become a light unto the Gentiles' and the attraction for many different peoples of the rooted historicity of Judaism and by the symbolic appropriation of Jewish suffering. This book will look at the role of colonialism in the development of Judaising movements throughout the world, including New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa. A remarkable parallel movement in 1930s Southern Italy will also be dealt with. The history of the converts of San Nicandro is seen in the context of currents of Jewish universalism, messianism and Zionism. Gender issues are also discussed here as the converted women assumed powers they had not hitherto enjoyed.

Judaising Movements

Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Semi
Judaising Movements Book PDF

Author : Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Semi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136860270

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Judaising Movements by Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Semi Pdf

The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion. This volume analyzes the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as proselytising but which at certain points was struggling to heed the Prophets and become a light unto the Gentiles' and the attraction for many different peoples of the rooted historicity of Judaism and by the symbolic appropriation of Jewish suffering. This book will look at the role of colonialism in the development of Judaising movements throughout the world, including New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa. A remarkable parallel movement in 1930s Southern Italy will also be dealt with. The history of the converts of San Nicandro is seen in the context of currents of Jewish universalism, messianism and Zionism. Gender issues are also discussed here as the converted women assumed powers they had not hitherto enjoyed.

Judaising Movements

Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Judaising Movements Book PDF

Author : Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0700715150

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The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion; this is the first monograph devoted to the subject. These movements are examined in Italy, New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and various parts of Africa. The 'centre' of these movements, proselytising trends in Palestine/Israel in the 1940s and 1950s which conceived of the mass conversion to Judaism of certain populations in Africa and Asia and involved various well-known Jewish personalities, are also examined, as are Judaising movements among Black communities in the United States. This volume analyses the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as 'proselytising' but which at certain points was struggling to heed the Prophets and become 'a light unto the Gentiles', and the attraction for many different peoples of the rooted historicity of Judaism.

The Jews of Andhra Pradesh

Yulia Egorova,Shahid Perwez
The Jews of Andhra Pradesh Book PDF

Author : Yulia Egorova,Shahid Perwez
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199929214

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The Jews of Andhra Pradesh by Yulia Egorova,Shahid Perwez Pdf

This is the first book devoted to the Bene Ephraim—a group of former untouchables in Andhra Pradesh who have claimed Jewish identity for themselves.

Becoming Jewish

Netanel Fisher,Tudor Parfitt
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Author : Netanel Fisher,Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443849609

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Becoming Jewish by Netanel Fisher,Tudor Parfitt Pdf

One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.

Jews and India

Yulia Egorova
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Author : Yulia Egorova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134146543

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Jews and India by Yulia Egorova Pdf

Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse. Despite the fact that the Indian Jewish population constitutes one of the country’s tiniest minorities, the relations of the local Jews with other communities form an integral part in the history of Indian multiculturalism. This has become increasingly apparent over the last two centuries as Judaism and its image have been incorporated into the discussions of some of the most prominent figures of different religious and nationalist movements, leaders of independent India, and the Indian mass media. Furthermore, recent decades witnessed mass adoption of Israelite identity by Indians from two different regions and religious groups. Being a topic that has received little attention, Jews and India seeks to rectify this situation by examining these developments and providing a fascinating insight into these issues. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Jewish and Indian cultural studies.

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

Tudor Parfitt
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Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674067905

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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

Tudor explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were cast as black and black Africans were cast as Jews, he reveals a complex interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses.

The Black Jews of Africa

Edith Bruder,Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies Edith Bruder
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Author : Edith Bruder,Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies Edith Bruder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195333565

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The Black Jews of Africa by Edith Bruder,Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies Edith Bruder Pdf

"This book presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in 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 distinct Jewish identity. It explores the ways in which Africans have interacted with the ancient mythological sub-strata of both western and African ideas of Judaism."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa

Nathan P. Devir
First Century Christians in Twenty First Century Africa Book PDF

Author : Nathan P. Devir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507708

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First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa by Nathan P. Devir Pdf

Millions of African Christians who consider themselves genealogical descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel—in other words, Jewish by ethnicity, but Christian in terms of faith—are increasingly choosing a religious affiliation that honors both of these identities. Their choice: Messianic Judaism. Messianic adherents emulate the Christians of the first century, observing the Jewish commandments while also affirming the salvational grace of Yeshua (Jesus). As the first comparative ethnography of such "fulfilled Jews" on the African continent, this book presents case studies that will enrich our understanding of one of global Christianity’s most overlooked iterations.

Genetics, Mass Media and Identity

Tudor Parfitt,Yulia Egorova
Genetics Mass Media and Identity Book PDF

Author : Tudor Parfitt,Yulia Egorova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134189113

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Genetics, Mass Media and Identity by Tudor Parfitt,Yulia Egorova Pdf

This is the first book to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite identity. The science of genetics as relayed by the media is perceived by laymen as being irreproachably objective 'hard science': its disinterested 'scientific' findings appear immensely impressive and may therefore act as a powerful catalyst for change. In this case, an oral tradition cherished by many of the Lemba that they are of Jewish origin appears to be supported by recent DNA testing, which has deeply affected the narrative and religious identity of the group and the way the tribe is perceived in the Western world. International in appeal, this topical text brings together cutting-edge research on the social, cultural and ethical implications of genetics and the study of Judaising movements across the world. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of Jewish history, genetic anthropology, race and ethnicity studies, and religious and cultural studies.

African Zion

Edith Bruder
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Author : Edith Bruder
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443838689

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African Zion by Edith Bruder Pdf

Over the last hundred years, in Africa and the United States, through a variety of religious encounters, some black African societies adopted – or perhaps rediscovered – a Judaic religious identity. African Zion grows out of a joined interest in these diversified encounters with Judaism, their common substrata and divergences, their exogenous or endogenous characteristics, the entry or re-entry of these people into the contemporary world as Jews and the necessity of reshaping the standard accounts of their collective experience. In various loci the bonds with Judaism of black Jews were often forged in the harshest circumstances and grew out of experiences of slavery, exile, colonial subjugation, political ethnic conflicts and apartheid. For the African peoples who identify as Jews and with other Jews, identification with biblical Israel assumes symbolical significance. This book presents the way in which the religious identification of African American Jews and African black Jews – “real”, ideal or imaginary – has been represented, conceptualized and reconfigured over the last century or so. These essays grow out of a concern to understand Black encounters with Judaism, Jews and putative Hebrew/Israelite origins and are intended to illuminate their developments in the medley of race, ethnicity, and religion of the African and African American religious experience. They reflect the geographical and historic mosaic of black Judaism, permeated as it is with different “meanings”, both contemporary and historical.

Sites of Jewish Memory

Glenda Abramson
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Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317751601

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Sites of Jewish Memory by Glenda Abramson Pdf

This book brings together a collection of 16 essays, first published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, that explore Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey and Iraq. The discussions are located primarily in the 20th century but essays also examine the Jewish community in 16th-century Istanbul, and in early modern Morocco. Topics include traumatic departures of communities from countries of centuries-old Jewish residence, and relocations; pilgrimages to holy sites by Mizrahi Jews in Israel; resonances of Shabbetai Zevi in Turkey and Morocco; "otherness" and the nature of homeland; the Sephardi culinary heritage as realised in the cookbooks of Claudia Roden; sites of memory, such as Kuzguncuk in Turkey; and a controversial view of the exclusions and erasures that Arabized Jews have undergone. In this unique collection a major, but not exclusive, theme is that of the instability of memory, and the attempt to understand the interactions between memory and history as Jews recount their experiences of living in, and often leaving, their past homelands. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

The Jews of Ethiopia

Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Trevisan Semi
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Author : Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134367672

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The Jews of Ethiopia by Tudor Parfitt,Emanuela Trevisan Semi Pdf

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.

Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

Dario Miccoli
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Author : Dario Miccoli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315308586

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Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature by Dario Miccoli Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Glossary -- List of contributors -- Introduction: memories, books, diasporas -- 1 The literary work of Jewish Maghrebi authors in postcolonial France -- 2 An old-new land: Tunisia, France and Israel in two novels of Chochana Boukhobza -- 3 Aesthetics, politics and the complexities of Arab Jewish identities in authoritarian Argentina -- 4 Writings of Jews from Libya in Italy and Israel: between past legacies and present issues -- 5 Lifewriting between Israel, the Diaspora and Morocco: revisiting the homeland through locations and objects of identity -- 6 Mizrahi fiction as a minor literature -- 7 The minor move of trauma: reading Erez Biton -- 8 Oblivion and cutting: a Levinasian reading of Shva Salhoov's poetry -- References -- Index

Memory and Ethnicity

Dario Miccoli,Emanuela Trevisan Semi
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Author : Dario Miccoli,Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443854665

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Memory and Ethnicity by Dario Miccoli,Emanuela Trevisan Semi Pdf

In recent times, ethnicity and issues of origin have become a hotly debated topic among Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This is particularly true both of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, who for years had remained at the margins of the Israeli national narrative, as well as the Israeli Palestinian minority. Much the same may be said of Diaspora Jews. Among the public spaces where ethnicity has become more visible are museums, together with heritage centres, art galleries, and the Internet. The aim of Memory and Ethnicity is to investigate how ethnicity is represented and narrated in such spaces. How have groups of Jews from such different backgrounds as Morocco, Egypt, India or the US elaborated their past legacies and traditions vis-à-vis a variety of national narratives and cultural or political ideologies? This volume describes the emergence of a new museological scene – that mirrors a multi-vocal Jewish and Israeli public sphere in which ethnicity has become central to a nation’s cultural imagination. By considering museums as “places of memory” where an ethnic/communal identity is displayed, Memory and Ethnicity analyses which memories are preserved, and which suppressed. This study sets out to enrich the understanding of Israeli and Jewish cultural history, and also to deepen the field of museum studies from little investigated perspectives.