| Author | : Asher Naim |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
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 | : Tudor Parfitt |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780297819349 |
Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the land of Israel was eventually divided up between them. Following a schism which formed after the death of Solomon, ten of the tribes set up an independent northern kingdom, whilst those of Judah and Levi set up a separate southern kingdom. In 721BC the ten northern tribes were ethnically cleansed by the Assyrians and the Bible states they were placed: in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the city of Medes. The Bible also foretold that one day they would be reunited with the southern tribes in the final redemption of the people of Israel. Their subsequent history became a tapestry of legend and hearsay. The belief persisted that they had been lost in some remote part of the world and there were countless suggestions and claims as to where.
| Author | : Gad Shimron |
| Publisher | : Gefen Publishing House Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789652294036 |
"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 | : Wayne-Danie Berard |
| Publisher | : Cowley Publications |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2006-10-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1461636108 |
When Christians Were Jews tells the story of identity rediscovered. Narrating recent biblical scholarship as a story of family strife, Berard recounts how early Christians dissociated from their Jewish origins and reflects on the spiritual loss suffered by Christianity because of this division. He calls Christians to explore “with open mind and heart . . . the Jewishness not only of Jesus but of themselves.”
| Author | : Sue Eisenfeld |
| Publisher | : Mad Creek Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814255810 |
"A Jewish Yankee journeys through the American South to explore the lesser-known Jewish culture, music, food, and history of the region; she engages with the civil rights movement and legacy of the Civil War and reckons with a changed perspective on her place in American history."
| Author | : David N. Myers |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2009-03-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1584658150 |
An exploration of the fascinating Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz and his provocative views on Arab refugees and the fate of Israel
| Author | : Emma Klein |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2016-07-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1349243191 |
Against a background of continuing erosion of Jewish numbers, the book investigates the many facets of Jewish identity by throwing the spotlight on people of part-Jewish descent, on born Jews on the fringes of Jewish life and those who have sought alternative affiliations. Emma Klein also calls for a response from religious and lay leaders to parochial communal attitudes and the anomaly of the definition of Jewish status in Jewish law which may be seen to contribute to the erosion.
| Author | : Sarah Abrevaya Stein |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0300142854 |
From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from New York's Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, this text explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture.
| Author | : Andrew Tobolowsky |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2022-03-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1009089137 |
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many efforts to construct an Israelite history, rather than source material for later legends, Andrew Tobolowsky brings a long-term comparative approach to biblical and nonbiblical “Israelite” histories. In the process, he sheds new light on how the structure of the twelve tribes tradition enables the creation of so many different visions of Israel, and generates new questions: How can we explain the enduring power of the myth of the twelve tribes of Israel? How does “becoming Israel” work, why has it proven so popular, and how did it change over time? Finally, what can the changing shape of Israel itself reveal about those who claimed it?
