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Subject(s)

• Jews—Africa [Browse]
• Judaism—Africa [Browse]
• Miles, William F. S.—Travel—Africa [Browse]
• Africa—Description and travel [Browse]
• Africa—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229).

Contents

• Preface and acknowledgments: The Africanization of an Ashkenazic Jew
• Part One: Jewish in West Africa and West African in Israel: 1.- Legacy of the rabbi of Timbuktu in the age of Al-Qaeda: an interview with Ismaël Diadié Haïdara; 2. Semitic surprises in Sufi Senegal; 3. Jewish in Muslim Black Africa; 4. "Take me to your leader": a Jerusalem story; 5. Black African Muslim in the Jewish state: lessons of colonial Nigeria for contemporary Jerusalem; 6. Luxury matzah; 7. Reburying my father in Africa; 8. Kaddish for my Muslim chief; 9. Hanukkah in Hausaland (with Arielle P. Miles); 10. T/sadaka by the Sahara: birth gifts, Bar Mitzvah projects, and the rabbi's well; 11. Horse inheritance, Jewish soul; 12. Passover reflections on a Saharan genocide; 13. The Jewishness of Nehemia Levtzion's legacy ; 14. Among the "Jubos" on the Festival of Lights
• Part II. Beyond West Africa: 15. African Judaism, race, romance, and my mother: a review of Edith Bruder's the Black Jews of Africa and Richard Hull's Jews and Judaism in African history; 16. Notes from a haunting conference: Rwanda; 17. Israelite in Kenya: father-daughter ruminations (with Arielle P. Miles); 18. Holocaust education in an African museum: reflections following a 2002 visit to South Africa; 19. Jewish in Mauritius: from Hebrew to Hindi; 20. Jews in paradise: Indian Ocean encounters on Réunion and Île Maurice; 21. Interned and buried: British Mauritius and the Holocaust ; 22. French West Indies I: the Jews file; 23. French West Indies II: Aimé Césaire and my Jewish question; 24. The "White house" of Judaism: under renovation, new hues may apply; 25. Ethiopian in the Negev: a minor rescue story; 26. Tropical seders.

ISBN

• 9781558765818 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1558765816 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781558765825 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1558765824 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013025407

OCLC

851175486

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