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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas /

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parfitt, Tudor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Colección:The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 The Color of Jews
  • 2 Lost Tribes of Israel in Africa
  • 3 Ham's Children
  • 4 Judaic Practices and Superior Stock
  • 5 Half White and Half Black
  • 6 The Emergence of Black Jews in the United States
  • 7 Divine Geography and Israelite Identities
  • 8 The Internalization of the Israelite Myth
  • 9 History, Genetics, and Indigenous Black African Jews
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index