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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

Author: Tudor Parfitt
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Series: Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Parfitt explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tudor Parfitt
ISBN: 9780674066984 0674066987 9780674067905 0674067908
OCLC Number: 792887111
Description: xiii, 225 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The color of Jews --
Lost tribes of Israel in Africa --
Ham's children --
Judaic practices and superior stock --
Half white and half black --
The emergence of Black Jews in the United States --
Divine geography and Israelite identities --
The internalization of the Israelite myth --
History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews.
Series Title: Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Responsibility: Tudor Parfitt.
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In throwing light on the source of our beliefs, Parfitt makes transparently clear how prejudice and desire for status, to cite just two verities of human behavior, interact with ever-changing Read more...

 
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