The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351479493

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The Migration Journey by Stephen Miller Pdf

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness, and death. A fifth of the group did not survive the journey. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. The author argues that powerful processes occur on such journeys that affect the individual and community in life-changing ways, including their initial encounter with and adaptation to their new society. Analyzing the psychosocial impact of the journey, he examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture, and discusses personal development and growth.

Author : Gadi BenEzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134480937

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The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus by Gadi BenEzer Pdf

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the land of their ancestors, 'Yerussalem' - embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness and death. A fifth of the group did not survive the journey. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. The author argues that powerful processes occur on such journeys that affect the individual and community in life-changing ways, including their initial encounter with and adaptation to their new society. Analysing the psychosocial impact of the journey, he examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture, and discusses personal development and growth.

Author : Gadi BenEzer,Gadi Ben-Ezer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412804868

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The Migration Journey by Gadi BenEzer,Gadi Ben-Ezer Pdf

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness, and death. A fifth of the group did not survive the journey. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. The author argues that powerful processes occur on such journeys that affect the individual and community in life-changing ways, including their initial encounter with and adaptation to their new society. Analyzing the psychosocial impact of the journey, he examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture, and discusses personal development and growth. "His beautifully written bookof great importancebrings the reader close to a community whose miraculous destiny serves as an inspiration."--Elie Wiesel Gadi BenEzer is a senior lecturer of psychology and anthropology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences in the College of Management in Tel Aviv. In the last two decades, he has worked as a psychotherapist and organizational psychologist with the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel. He has written extensively on Ethiopian Jews, trauma and life stories, and cross-cultural psychotherapy. His book on the immigration and integration of the Ethiopian Jews has become the main text on the subject in Israel.

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131513313X

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The Migration Journey by Stephen Miller Pdf

"Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness, and death. A fifth of the group did not survive the journey. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. The author argues that powerful processes occur on such journeys that affect the individual and community in life-changing ways, including their initial encounter with and adaptation to their new society. Analyzing the psychosocial impact of the journey, he examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture, and discusses personal development and growth."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gādî Ben-ʿĒzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0203274377

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The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus by Gādî Ben-ʿĒzer Pdf

Author : Gad Shimron
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9652294039

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Mossad Exodus by Gad Shimron Pdf

"In 1977, Israel's Mossad spy agency was given an assignment from former Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan and "deliver them" in the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan, and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus of the refugees to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. Gad Shimron, the author of this book, was one of their number. Shimron offers a thrilling firsthand account of how the operation was put in place, and how the Mossad team in Sudan brought it off, despite great personal risk, running a partying vacation spot for wealthy tourists by day as they stole through the Sudanese desert to rescue desperate refugees by night"--

Author : Ruth Gruber
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012854462

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Rescue by Ruth Gruber Pdf

Rescue is the moving account of the lives, struggles and persecutions of the isolated black Jews of Ethiopa--and of their valiant journey across the country to their long-awaited rescue and absorption into Israeli society.

Author : Micha Feldmann
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789652295699

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On Wings of Eagles by Micha Feldmann Pdf

This is a personal account of the coordinator of the Jewish Agency who helped thousands of Ethiopian Jews that were refugees in Sudan eventually immigrate to Israel during Operation Solomon in May 1991.

Author : Durrenda Nash Onolemhemhen,Kebede Gessesse
Publisher : ATLA Monograph Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Israel
ISBN : 0810834146

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The Black Jews of Ethiopia by Durrenda Nash Onolemhemhen,Kebede Gessesse Pdf

During the past 15 years, 40,000 African Jews have left their homes to resettle in predominantly white Israel. This book examines the past of Ethiopian Jews, the only group of Africans practicing Judaism, in order to understand their present life in Israel.

Author : Alisa Poskanzer
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050275380

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Ethiopian Exodus by Alisa Poskanzer Pdf

Author : Howard M. Lenhoff
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9652293652

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Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes by Howard M. Lenhoff Pdf

Seldom has a small grassroots organization polarized American Jewry as did the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) and seldom has a grassroots organization been so successful. How were five governments persuaded that it was to their interest to allow the threatened Jews of Ethiopia to fulfill their dream of rejoining their brethren in Israel? From 1974 through 1991, active AAEJ members demonstrated that it was possible to rescue black Jews from Africa. They enlisted the support of college students, American Rabbis, editors of the Jewish press and other Zionists. Lenhoff's memoir provides many untold stories behind this historic drama: How Israeli Ethiopian Jews and Americans Jews worked secretly to rescue over 1,000 Ethiopian Jews. How Jerry Weaver masterminded Operation Moses - the first mass exodus of black Africans as free people - not as slaves. How two gutsy American women set up a situation allowing Israel to rescue 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in one day of Operation Solomon. There is more: the intrigues in Israel between the politics of religion and the Law of Return; the daring heroic adventures of courageous Ethiopian Jews as they trekked from Ethiopia to Sudan. These are the stories of activists who challenged the establishment and won! Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes is written from the first-hand experiences of one of the AAEJ's three Presidents, scholar-activist Howard Lenhoff. Lenhoff and Gefen Publishing House are especially pleased to present also as part of this book, the untold story of "righteous gentile," Jerry Weaver.

Author : Colette Berman,Yosef Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073408606

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The Beautiful People of the Book by Colette Berman,Yosef Miller Pdf

A Tribute to Ethiopian Jews in Israel.

Author : Asher Naim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058252183

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Saving the Lost Tribe by Asher Naim Pdf

This extraordinary history of the Falashas, the Black Jews of Ethiopia, is chronicled by the former Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia. Naim also recounts the rescue mission in 1991 that delivered them to the safety of Israel. 8-page full-color photo insert with b&w photos throughout.

Author : Claire Safran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 0137981821

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Secret Exodus by Claire Safran Pdf

Author : Stephen Spector
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195346435

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Operation Solomon by Stephen Spector Pdf

"Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. In this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive access to confidential documents. Written with the pace and immediacy of a novel, here is the dramatic story of the rescue of the dark-skinned Jews of Ethiopia. Spector recounts how 20,000 Jews were willingly lured from their ancestral villages to Addis Ababa, expecting to be taken quickly from there to the Holy Land. Instead, they became pawns in a struggle between the Israeli government and Ethiopia's repressive dictator, who tried to coerce Israel into selling him weapons he needed in a losing war against rebel armies. In the resulting stalemate, the Jewish community was forced to live for nearly a year in squalid hovels, vulnerable to the dangers of the city, including crime and HIV. Worse yet, the imminent collapse of Addis Ababa, with the rebels closing in on the capital, raised the threat of bloody street fighting or even a genocidal attack on the Jews, a small minority in a nation that is primarily Christian and Muslim. Spector describes the tense negotiations among Israelis, Ethiopians, and Americans, which became increasingly urgent as time ran low and the danger mounted. And he highlights the secret deals and sudden setbacks that nearly aborted the mission at the eleventh hour, even as Israeli jets sat on the runway in Ethiopia, waiting to take the Jews to the land for which they had yearned for generations. Recounting the full story for the first time, Operation Solomon is a stirring account of a heroic rescue achieved in the face of daunting odds.