we conclude that the Falasha people descended from ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia who converted to ...
we conclude that the Falasha people descended from ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia who converted to ...
Falashas(fäläˈshəs)[Amharic,=exiles], Jews of Ethiopia who refer to themselves asBeta Israel(House of Israel). Long isolated from mainstream Judaism, they practice a form of the religion based on the Jewish Scriptures and certain apocryphal books; they also adhere to certain tradition...
a member of a historically Cushitic-speaking people of central Ethiopia who practice a form of Judaism. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
But Joseph Halévy, who visited them in 1868, thinks that the Jewish element of the Falashas proceeds especially from the Himyarites captured in Ethiopia by the king Kaleb, conqueror of Dhu-Nuwas. Taking refuge in the mountains beyond the Takazze, they converted a part of the Agaus, and ...
The serological survey reported here demonstrates a high prevalence of HTLV-I antibodies in new immigrants from Ethiopia. This previously ethnically and geographically isolated group, the 'Black Jews' or 'Falashas', from the Gondar region in the northern rural highlands of Ethiopia, has the highest...
1990. "Identity and Change: The Example of the Falashas between Assimilation in Ethiopia and Integration in Israel." Dialectical Anthropology 15 (1) (1990): 56-73.FRIEDMAN, D.; SANTAMARIA, U. "Identity and change: the example of the Falashas, between assimilation in Ethiopia and integration...
About the book First published in 1862, this is a narrative of the life led in the islolated Ethiopia of a century ago.Wanderings Among the Falashas in Abyssiniadoi:10.4324/9781315033532Henry Aaron SternStern, Henry Aaron. 1968. Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia. Together with a ...