An edition of Afro-Jewish encounters
(2014)
Afro-Jewish encounters
from Timbuktu to the Indian Ocean and beyond
by William F. S. Miles
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Jews, Judaism, Travel, Description and travel, Ethnic relations, Jews, africa, Africa, description and travel, Africa, ethnic relationsPeople
William F. S. MilesPlaces
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Afro-Jewish encounters: from Timbuktu to the Indian Ocean and beyond
2014, Markus Wiener Publishers
in English
1558765816 9781558765818
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Table of Contents
Part I. Preface and acknowledgments: the Africanization of an Ashkenazic Jew
Jewish in West Africa and West African in Israel --
Legacy of the rabbi of Timbuktu in the age of Al-Qaeda: an interview with Ismaël Diadié Haïdara --
Semitic surprises in Sufi Senegal --
Jewish in Muslim Black Africa --
Black African Muslim in the Jewish state: lessons of colonial Nigeria for contemporary Jerusalem --
"Take me to your leader": a Jerusalem story --
T/sadaka by the Sahara: birth gifts, Bar Mitzvah projects, and the rabbi's well --
Luxury matzah --
Reburying my father in Africa --
Kaddish for my Muslim chief --
Hanukkah in Hausaland (with Arielle P. Miles) --
Horse inheritance, Jewish soul --
Passover reflections on a Saharan genocide --
The Jewishness of Nehemia Levtzion's legacy --
Among the "Jubos" on the Festival of Lights -- -- Part II. Beyond West Africa
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 --
Notes from a haunting conference: Rwanda -- Israelite in Kenya: father-daughter ruminations (with Arielle P. Miles) --
Holocaust education in an African museum: reflections following a 2002 visit to South Africa --
Jewish in Mauritius: from Hebrew to Hindi --
Jews in paradise: Indian Ocean encounters on Réunion and Île Maurice --
Interned and buried: British Mauritius and the Holocaust --
French West Indies I: the Jews file --
French West Indies II: Aimé Césaire and my Jewish question --
The "White house" of Judaism: under renovation, new hues may apply --
Ethiopian in the Negev: a minor rescue story --
Tropical seders.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229).
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