Jewish Identity Among the Igbo of Nigeria
Title | Jewish Identity Among the Igbo of Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Lis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-05 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9781592219605 |
Among the 20 to 30 million Igbo people in Nigeria there is a widespread belief that the Igbo originated in ancient Israel. Recently a number of Igbo Jewish communities have been established in Nigeria. Although some Igbo have made their way to Israel, the Israeli public is largely unaware of the fact that that there are in addition of 20 to 30 million people in Nigeria that are called by some, 'the Jews of West Africa.' This book offers for the first time an in-depth study and a genealogical history of the Igbo's long term narrative of a possible Jewish origin.
Jews of Nigeria
Title | Jews of Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | William F. S. Miles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781558765665 |
Africa's newest Jewish community of note is in Nigeria, where upwards of twenty thousand Igbos are commonly claimed to have adopted Judaism. Bolstered by customs recalling an Israelite ancestry, but embracing rabbinic Judaism, they are also the world's first 'Internet Jews'. William Miles has spent over three decades conducting research in West Africa. He shares life stories from this spiritually passionate community, as well as his own Judaic reflections as he celebrates Hanukka and a bar mitzvah with 'Jubos' in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.
The Black Jews of Africa
Title | The Black Jews of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Bruder |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2008-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019533356X |
"This book presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in Western central, eastern, and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a distinct Jewish identity. It explores the ways in which Africans have interacted with the ancient mythological sub-strata of both western and African ideas of Judaism."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
The Igbos and Israel
Title | The Igbos and Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Remy Ilona |
Publisher | Remy Ilona |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781938609008 |
Jewish Igbo scholar Remy Ilona presents and analyzes Judaic history, practices and concept within the Igbo culture of Nigeria. Remy has been honored and supported by Kulanu, an American Jewish organization that assists dispersed Jewish communities internationally.
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
Title | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Tudor Parfitt |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2013-02-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674071506 |
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 millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.
In the Shadow of Moses
Title | In the Shadow of Moses PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Lis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Judaism |
ISBN | 9781599071466 |
Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria
Title | Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Egodi Uchendu |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2020-08-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3112208722 |
Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.