PBy what strange process, since the beginning of the 20th century and especially in recent decades, have makeshift synagogues emerged from the ground in the heart of black African villages? Edith Bruder, a research associate at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, has studied this remarkable phenomenon at length: Across the continent, from Cape Verde to Uganda and from Timbuktu to South Africa passing through Nigeria, very diverse ethnic groups claim to be the descendants of Jewish communities that have settled in Africa since the earliest times.
This book shows how, by the tens of thousands, the Igbo, Lemba, Abayudaya and many others appropriated a Jewish spiritual and ethnic identity, thus disrupting the religious landscape of Africa. Edith Bruder deciphers the mythological substratum of their speech and analyzes the influence of the religious and colonial prejudices of the West. A fascinating story, in which are associated the two figures who were for a long time for Europe the archetypes of the other: the Jew and the black.
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Black Jews: Black Jews in Africa and the Myth of the Lost Tribes
Release Date | 2014-09-01T00:00:00.000Z |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 320 |
Publication Date | 2014-09-01T00:00:00.000Z |
Format | Kindle Ebook |