Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Socialization and Re-Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4047923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Weinstein (0000-0002-1126-8622, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2294934 |
| OpenAlex | W2062736399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Approximately 15,000 Black Jews from Ethiopia have arrived over the past few years in the State of Israel. They call themselves Beta Israel or House of Israel, but their former Christian and Muslim neighbors in Africa refer to them as Falashas, or landless strangers, a somewhat derogatory term by which they also became known in Europe as early as the twelfth century. Because most of the 10,000 to 15,000 Jews remaining in Africa wish to emigrate, the Black Jewish population in Israel will increase in the years to come. Their rapid movement from a rural Amharic or Tigrinya-speaking African environment into an urban, technologically advanced Hebrew speaking White environment necessitates a planned process of socialization and re-education. In Israel this process is called absorption, and it is directed by professional social workers and educators employed by the Jewish Agency, a non-governmental organization supported by donations from Jews around the world for the purpose of helping immigration and absorption of those Jews who wish to return to their ancestral and spiritual homeland. Socialization of adult and adolescent Ethiopian Jews requires maintenance of a delicate balance between teaching what is necessary to live and work satisfactorily in a new environment and avoidance of denigration of those valued elements of African Jewish traditions which are different in some details from the traditions of Jews returning from Europe, the Americas, Arab countries, Iran, and India. The differences are due to the two-thousand-year separation of
Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Ethnology · Hebrew · Homeland · Immigration · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · White (mutation) · African history and culture analysis · Classics · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |