Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel

The Homeland Postponed

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ID23539450
AuthorsTanya Schwarz
Year2016
Pages288
Publication date2016-03-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEthiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315028125
OpenAlexW613531087
ISBN9781315028125
Open LibraryOL53971599M
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, a few years after their migration from rural Ethiopia to urban Israel. For the Beta Israel, the most significant issue is not, as is commonly assumed, adaptation to modern society, but rather 'belonging' in their new homeland, and the loss of control they are experiencing over their lives and those of their children. Ethiopian Jewish immigrants resist those aspects of the dominant society which they dislike: they reject normative Jewish practices and uphold Beta Israel religious and cultural ones, ideologically counteract disparaging Israeli attitudes, develop strong ethnic bonds and engage in overt forms of resistance. The difficulties of the present are also overcome by creating a perfect past and an ideal future: in what the author calls 'the homeland postponed', all Jews will be united in a colour-blind world of material plenty and purity.

Acculturation · Archaeology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Homeland · Ideal (ethics) · Ideology · Immigration · Judaism · Normative · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Discrimination & Race Relations · emigration and immigration · Ethiopian · Ethiopian Jews · ethnic relations · Falacha · Israel · Jews · Manners and customs · Minority Studies · Psychological aspects · Religion · Social aspects · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Social Science

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