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One People, One
Blood
Price: $55.00
Subtitle:
Ethiopian-Israelis
and the Return to Judaism
Author:
Don Seeman
Subject: Jewish
Studies, Anthropology
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4541-7
Pages: 296 pages, 10
illustrations
Publication Date: July 2009
Series:
Jewish
Cultures of the World
Praise for One People, One Blood
"Written with grace
and thoroughly researched, One
People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that
also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in
recent Jewish history."—Ruth Behar, author
of An Island Called Home: Returning
to Jewish Cuba
Description:
“Qäs be-qäs,
ənqulal be-əgərou yehedal” .
. ."Little by little, an egg will come to walk upon its own leg."
Ethiopian-Israelis fondly quote this bit of Amharic folk wisdom,
reflecting upon the slow, difficult history that allowed them to
fulfill their destiny far from the Horn of Africa where they were born.
But today, along with those Ethiopians who have been recognized as Jews
by the State of Israel, many who are called "Feres Mura," the
descendants of Ethiopian Jews whose families converted to Christianity
but have now reasserted their Jewish identity, still await full
acceptance in Israel. Since the 1990s, they have sought homecoming
through Israel's "Law of Return," but have been met with reticence and
suspicion on a variety of fronts. One People, One Blood expertly
documents this tenuous relationship and the challenges facing the Feres
Mura.
Distilling more than ten years of ethnographic research, Don Seeman
depicts the rich culture of the group, as well as their social and
cultural vulnerability, and addresses the problems that arise when
immigration officials, religious leaders, or academic scholars try to
determine the legitimacy of Jewish identity or Jewish religious
experience.
About the Author:
Don Seeman is an assistant professor
in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
at Emory University.
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