Jewish Africans Describe their Lives: Evidence of an Unrecognized Indigenous People; Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, ... Jewish Phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa) [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Read first-person accounts of Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa describing their lives. This book includes: the voice of a minister who became a rabbi in Cameroon, a Prince in Madagascar describing his Israelite roots, Jews in Tanzania sharing about their Yemenite roots and preparing for Shabbat, Jewish women in Uganda organizing a sanitary products project during the pandemic, a Jewish community developed out of a Kabbalah Center in Cote d’Ivoire, a messianic Christian community in Kenya was deceived into thinking they were Jewish and what they did about that, the Lemba in Zimbabwe and their Jewish genetic connections, 30 million Ibo of Nigeria who understand themselves as descendants of the biblical Tribe of Gad, and more. Read about old and new Jewish communities with their context in a larger society. Lost Tribes, building synagogues and mikvas, celebrating Shabbat and holidays, impacts of COVID-19, and many more surprises. Video Links to primary sources are included.The Jewish phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be rich and diverse. While the world has long known about the prestigious ancient Jewish world in North Africa, dynamic Jewish engagements below the Sahara are news to many. Too many across the globe cannot imagine communities across Sub-Saharan Africa engaging Jewishly, historically or today. Even placing the terms “indigenous” and “Jewish” together in a sentence can cause some turmoil. In this book, indigenous Africans tell their Jewish stories and describe their Jewish lives. With this work we hope further studies of indigeneity in Africa and beyond will be better able to include the diversity of experience of Jewish communal life over time. Read more