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Coverage: Israel Language: eng Publisher: Wayne State University Press Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine Subject: Jews, Ethiopian--Israel--History Date: 1993 Date: 2018 Collection: Wayne State University eBooks Collection: Wayne State University eBooks-
For our soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia and its ensuing economic and political upheavals, compounded by the brutality of the military regime and the willingness—after years of refusal—of the Israeli government to receive them as bona fide Jews entitled to immigrate to that country. As the sole Jewish community from sub-Sahara Africa in Israel, the Ethiopian Jews have met with unique difficulties. Based on f…