The Jews of Africa and Asia: Contemporary Anti-Semitism and other pressures

The Jews of Africa and Asia: Contemporary Anti-Semitism and other pressures
Author: Tudor Parfitt
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Total Pages: 11
Release: 1987-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0946690561
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'The archetypal oppressed minority' For centuries, Jews have lived in Africa and Asia, including the Middle East. Over recent decades, however, their numbers have declined dramatically and in countries like Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Morocco have been reduced sometimes to only a few hundred people. Within a few generations, these and other communities are likely to disappear altogether, either because of the attraction that Israel provides or because of overt anti-Semitic animosity. For many, there is a precarious balance between survival and persecution. Persecution of Jews by a variety of host societies permeates history and continents. In Europe, anti-Jewish prejudice existed in Greek and Roman times and later the Christian church waged ideological warfare for centuries against the synagogue. Wide-scale and violent destruction of Jewish lives and property erupted periodically, especially in troubled times when people looked for scapegoats. Waves of European Christian anti-Semitism spread to many countries, chiefly to areas of the Islamic world where traditional social and religious attitudes towards Jews provided fertile soil for discrimination. Under Islam, the State was required to protect Jews, but they were nearly always reduced to second class citizens. Alarmingly, anti-Semitic hostility has recently spread to countries where Jews have never lived and are virtually unknown, such as in Japan. By contrast, there are a few countries in which small and less historic Jewish communities continue without discrimination. The Jews of Africa and Asia, the new Minority Rights Group Report, provides an historical analysis of European and Islamic experiences of anti-Jewish prejudice and persecution and the rise of contemporary anti-Zionism. The Report gives a graphic detailed picture of the current situations of Jewish communities remaining in Africa and Asia in a country by country survey. It is essential reading for all those concerned with racism and history.

The Jews of Africa

The Jews of Africa
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1920
Genre: Jews
ISBN:
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A history of Jews in Africa, with a focus on the 16th and 17th centuries, necessarily limited to the northern portion of the continent: Abyssinia & Ethiopia, Egypt, Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
Author: Tudor Parfitt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674071506
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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.

The Jews of Africa; Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by Sidney Mendelssohn ... with a Protrait of the Author

The Jews of Africa; Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by Sidney Mendelssohn ... with a Protrait of the Author
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230326986
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED A., Mons.--The Religion, Manners and Customs o' the Countries of Muley Arxid. Minimo. 1671. Abbott, G. F.--Israel in Europe. London. Royal 8vo. 1007 Abrahams, Israel.--Jewish Life in the Middle Ages. London. 8vo. 1896. Addison, Lancelot.--The Present State of the Jews (more particularly relating to those in Barbary). Wherein is contained an exact account of their Customs, Secular and Religious. To which is annexed a Summary Discourse of the Misna, Talmud and Gemara. London. i2mo. 1675. Addison, Lancelot.--West Barbary. A short narrative of the Revolutions of Morocco and Fez, with their customs. Oxford. 8vo. 1671. Adler, Elkan N.--Jews in Many Lands. London. 8vo. 1905. Adler, Elkan N.--Auto de Ft & Jew. London. Svo. 1908. (astley, Thomas).--A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of the most esteemed Relations, which have been hitherto published in any language: comprehending every thing remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. ... 4 vols. . . . London. Quarto. 1747. Basnage, Jacob Christian.--The History of the Jews from Jesus Christ to the Present Time . . . being a supplement and continuation of the History of Josephus. Translated into Engish by Tho. Taylor, A.M. London. Folio. 1708. Baude, Baron.--L'Algtrie. 2 vols. Paris. 8vo. 1841. Beechev, Captain F. W., and Beechey, H. W.--Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward; in 1821 and 1822. London. Quarto. 1828. Benjamin Of Tudela.--The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, Translated and edited by A. Asher. Vol. i, Text, Bibliography, and Translation. Vol. ii, Notes and Essays. London and Berlin. 8vo. 1840-1841. Benjamin (II) J. J.--Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846...