Blackness and Jewishness - Ethiopian Jewry's Durability Diasporic, Zionist, and Israeli Discourses on Identity (1855-2019)

How did Israeli and Western Jews react to Ethiopian immigrants in Israel who are referred to as "Black Jews"? The book addresses the question of what occurs when Jews choose whiteness and Black individuals choose Blackness by examining the case of Ethiopian Jews and their immigration to Israel from the mid-19th century to today. This in-depth, holistic analysis of Ethiopian Jewish experience in Israel by an Ethiopian Jewish scholar provides a fresh, necessary perspective on "Black" Jewish diaspora experiences, on Jewish Studies and Black Studies theory.

About the author

Danny B. Admasu
, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Summary

How did Israeli and Western Jews react to Ethiopian immigrants in Israel who are referred to as “Black Jews”? The book addresses the question of what occurs when Jews choose whiteness and Black individuals choose Blackness by examining the case of Ethiopian Jews and their immigration to Israel from the mid-19th century to today. This in-depth, holistic analysis of Ethiopian Jewish experience in Israel by an Ethiopian Jewish scholar provides a fresh, necessary perspective on “Black” Jewish diaspora experiences, on Jewish Studies and Black Studies theory.

Product details

• Authors: Danny B. Admasu, Danny B Admasu
• Publisher: Oldenbourg
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.12.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History
• EAN: 9783111507248
• ISBN: 978-3-11-150724-8
• Pages: 390
• Illustrations: 15 b/w ill.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23 cm
• Series: The Vidal Sassoon Studies in Antisemitism, Racism, and Prejudice > 6
• Subjects: Judentum, Verstehen, Israel, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Äthiopien, Schwarz, Diaspora, Blackness, Ethiopia, HIS037070 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HIS054000 HISTORY / Social History, HIS022000 HISTORY / Jewish, HIS037060 HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Bezug zu Menschen aus der afrikanischen Diaspora / Erbe, Zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (ca. 1850 bis ca. 1899), REL040030 RELIGION / Judaism / History, HIS001020 HISTORY / Africa / East, jewry