Jews from Elsewhere

NOTE EDITORE

Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped together with a vaguely-defined group of Middle Eastern "Mizrahi" Jews). Noticeably few of us are even aware of the history of the geographically-dispersed Jewish diaspora, including communities in India, China, and Africa, which reveal a fascinating diversity of Jewish people. This comes as no surprise - there are not many reference works to consider, and consequently not much education for the general public about Jews outside these two main groups. Jews from Elsewhere aims to begin to fill that information void. Edith Bruder has gathered scholars from around the world and a variety of disciplines to sort out the dynamics of those lesser-known, often slumbering worlds. Thirty-four contributors bring to light the cultural universes of these diverse communities, and open up to general readership a millennia-long, interconnected, global history. In this monumental work of scholarship, communities such as the non-Rabbinical Jews of Ethiopia, those scattered around the Amazon rainforest, and the "new Jews" of Asia and Africa (who may or may not claim to belong to the famed Lost Tribes of Israel) are shown to rebuke the common understanding that all Jews share a single common genealogical, cultural, or religious denominator. Available for the first time in English, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and development of the Jewish diaspora.

SOMMARIO

1 - Elsewhere . . . Differently2 - Exile According to the Bible and Rabbinical Literature3 - The Lost Tribes of Israel: A Modern and Postmodern Myth4 - The Diaspora as a Multicultural Paradigm5 - From Babylon to Iraq6 - Syria, Between the Land of Israel and Diaspora7 - In the Kingdom of Sheba: The Yemeni Jews8 - The Ethnography of the Yemenite Jews9 - From Cyrus to Khomeini: The Jews of Iran10 - Being Jewish in Turkey: A Three-Pronged Identity Strategy11 - Jews, Muslims, Both, or Neither? The Salonican Dönme12 - At the Heart of the Caucasus: The Mountain Jews13 - The Jews of Azerbaijan: Between “Soviet Cosmopolitanism” and (Bi)Nationalism14 - Along the Silk Road: Tashkent and Bukhara15 - The Jews of Afghanistan16 - The Ancient Hebrew Origins of the Pashtuns of Afghanistan17 - The Cantonists’ Descendants: Ashkenazi Jewish Communities of Central Asia18 - The Karaites in Crimea19 - Between Christianity and Judaism: The Subbotniks20 - The Birobidjan Project: A History of Jewish Autonomy in the Russian Far East21 - The Thirteenth Tribe: The Imaginary Legacy of the Khazars22 - The Jews of Latin America and the Caribbean23 - The Jews of Suriname and Brazil24 - The Jews of the Caribbean25 - The Jews of Mexico26 - Argentina: The Other Promised Land27 - Jewish Life on the Pacific: The Jews of Peru28 - The Legacy of Marranism29 - The Jews of India30 - The Bene Israel31 - The Departure of the Jews of Cochin to Israel: How They Remember versus How They Are Remembered32 - The “Baghdadi” Jews of India, Burma, and Malaya33 - The Bene Menashe34 - The Bene Ephraim35 - Jewish Communities in Africa in the Twentieth Century36 - Ethiopian Jews: From Beta Israel to Ethiopian Israelis37 - The Abayudaya of Uganda38 - The Lemba of Southern Africa39 - The Igbo of Nigeria40 - The House of Israel in Ghana41 - The Jews of Cape Verde42 - The Jews of Madagascar43 - “New Jews” in Cameroon and Kenya44 - The Jews of China45 - The Sino-Judaism of Kaifeng46 - The Jewish Communities of Harbin and Tianjin47 - Jews in Shanghai48 - Jewish Life in Hong Kong49 - Jews on the Move: Images of Cosmopolitan Jews versus Jewish Nomads50 - Philo-Semitism from Christian Millenarianism to Contemporary Judaizing Movements51 - Paradigms of “Sephardic and Oriental” Jews: Migration, Social Change, and Identification52 - Genetics, Community, and Identity53 - Jewishness as an Evolving Paradigm: The Case of the Bene Menashe

AUTORE

Edith Bruder is a Research Associate at the French National Center for Scientific Research; UNISA-University of South Africa; and SOAS University of London. A leading scholar of the Jewish diaspora, she is the author of The Black Jews of Africa (2008), the co-editor of African Zion (2012) and Africana Jewish Journeys (2018) and the editor of Juifs d'ailleurs (2020).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780197750926
• Dimensioni: 235 x 156 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 512