The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus - Narratives of the Journey

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 cames, until they were brought to Israel. the difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by banditys, 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 this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society.

List of contents

1. Introduction2. The Context of the Journey3. Interviewing and Interpreting in Cross Cultural Research4. The Theme of Jewish Identity5. The Theme of Suffering6. The Theme of Bravery and Inner Strength7. The Impact of the Journey: Psycho-Social Issues8. Ethiopian Jews Encounter Israel

About the author

Gadi BenEzer is a senior lecturer of psychology and anthropology at the Department of Behavioural 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 Immigration and Integration of the Ethiopian Jews has become the main text on the subject in Israel.

Summary

This book presents new research into the exodus of 16 thousand Jewish immigrants from Ethopia to Israel between 1977 and 1985. Issues from trauma and memory to race and migration are raised.

Product details

• Authors: Gadi Benezer, BenEzer Gadi
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2002
• EAN: 9780415273633
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27363-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 703 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Judaism / History, Religion: general, Judaism, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples