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008 130624s2014 njua b 000 0 eng c
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020 $a9781558765818 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDS135.A25$bM55 2014
082 04 $a960.004924$223
100 1 $aMiles, William F. S.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAfro-Jewish encounters :$bfrom Timbuktu to the Indian Ocean and beyond /$cWilliam F. S. Miles ; with a foreword by Ali A. Mazrui.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bMarkus Wiener Publishers,$c[2014]
300 $axxviii, 232 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-229).
505 00 $gPart I. Preface and acknowledgments: the Africanization of an Ashkenazic Jew --$tJewish in West Africa and West African in Israel --$tLegacy of the rabbi of Timbuktu in the age of Al-Qaeda: an interview with Ismaël Diadié Haïdara --$tSemitic surprises in Sufi Senegal --$tJewish in Muslim Black Africa --$tBlack African Muslim in the Jewish state: lessons of colonial Nigeria for contemporary Jerusalem --$t"Take me to your leader": a Jerusalem story --$tT/sadaka by the Sahara: birth gifts, Bar Mitzvah projects, and the rabbi's well --$tLuxury matzah --$tReburying my father in Africa --$tKaddish for my Muslim chief --$tHanukkah in Hausaland (with Arielle P. Miles) --$tHorse inheritance, Jewish soul --$tPassover reflections on a Saharan genocide --$tThe Jewishness of Nehemia Levtzion's legacy --$tAmong the "Jubos" on the Festival of Lights --$gPart II. Beyond West Africa --$tAfrican 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 --$tNotes from a haunting conference: Rwanda -- Israelite in Kenya: father-daughter ruminations (with Arielle P. Miles) --$tHolocaust education in an African museum: reflections following a 2002 visit to South Africa --$tJewish in Mauritius: from Hebrew to Hindi --$tJews in paradise: Indian Ocean encounters on Réunion and Île Maurice --$tInterned and buried: British Mauritius and the Holocaust --$tFrench West Indies I: the Jews file --$tFrench West Indies II: Aimé Césaire and my Jewish question --$tThe "White house" of Judaism: under renovation, new hues may apply --$tEthiopian in the Negev: a minor rescue story --$tTropical seders.
650 0 $aJews$zAfrica.
650 0 $aJudaism$zAfrica.
600 10 $aMiles, William F. S.$xTravel$zAfrica.
651 0 $aAfrica$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aAfrica$xEthnic relations.