Jewish Identity Among The Igbo Of Nigeria
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Author |
: Daniel Lis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2014-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592219608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592219605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jewish Identity Among the Igbo of Nigeria by : Daniel Lis
Among the 20 to 30 million Igbo people in Nigeria there is a widespread belief that the Igbo originated in ancient Israel. Recently a number of Igbo Jewish communities have been established in Nigeria. Although some Igbo have made their way to Israel, the Israeli public is largely unaware of the fact that that there are in addition of 20 to 30 million people in Nigeria that are called by some, 'the Jews of West Africa.' This book offers for the first time an in-depth study and a genealogical history of the Igbo's long term narrative of a possible Jewish origin.
Author |
: Kendrick Callaway |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798354336067 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Tribe Of Jewish Decent by : Kendrick Callaway
There is a widespread belief among the 20 to 30 million Igbo people of Nigeria that the Igbo people originated in ancient Israel. A number of Igbo Jewish communities have recently been established in Nigeria. Although some Igbo have found their way to Israel, the Israeli public is largely unaware of the fact that there are an additional 20 to 30 million Igbo people in Nigeria, who have been referred to by some as The Jews of West Africa. Igbo Jewish identity has significant political implications in Nigeria and Israel. This book offers a well-researched analysis and history of the long-standing and controversial Igbo narrative of possible Jewish origins, thereby creating a new reading of Igbo history. This interdisciplinary research monograph describes different layers of identity and shows step by step through the last 250 years of Igbo history how Jewish identification was part of Igbo identity and cultural practice. The book then shows the place of the Igbo in post-Biafran Nigeria and how, in the ethnically and religiously fragmented state, the judaizing Igbo, encouraged by parts of the Jewish world, are increasingly orienting themselves towards normative Judaism. The author offers a treasure trove of documented information about Nigerian Igbo Jewish identity, their relationship to the State of Israel, and their tragic recent history. For several centuries there have been claims and assertions by both historians and social scientists that this very ingenious ethnic nationality is a lost tribe of Israel? Noting the undeniable cultural, behavioral, religious and linguistic similarities between the Igbos and the Jews, as first officially described in a book written in the late 18th century. This book, The African African Tribe Of Jewish Descent: a tale of two nations connected by history, is an open window to the lives and relationship between these two great nations. Scroll up and add this amazing work to your knowledge catalog.
Author |
: William F. S. Miles |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 159 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1558765662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781558765665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jews of Nigeria by : William F. S. Miles
Africa's newest Jewish community of note is in Nigeria, where upwards of twenty thousand Igbos are commonly claimed to have adopted Judaism. Bolstered by customs recalling an Israelite ancestry, but embracing rabbinic Judaism, they are also the world's first 'Internet Jews'. William Miles has spent over three decades conducting research in West Africa. He shares life stories from this spiritually passionate community, as well as his own Judaic reflections as he celebrates Hanukka and a bar mitzvah with 'Jubos' in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.
Author |
: Edith Bruder |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2008-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195333565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019533356X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Jews of Africa by : Edith Bruder
"This book presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in Western central, eastern, and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a distinct Jewish identity. It explores the ways in which Africans have interacted with the ancient mythological sub-strata of both western and African ideas of Judaism."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author |
: Remy Ilona |
Publisher |
: Remy Ilona |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 193860900X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781938609008 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Igbos and Israel by : Remy Ilona
Jewish Igbo scholar Remy Ilona presents and analyzes Judaic history, practices and concept within the Igbo culture of Nigeria. Remy has been honored and supported by Kulanu, an American Jewish organization that assists dispersed Jewish communities internationally.
Author |
: Tudor Parfitt |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2013-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674071506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674071506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Jews in Africa and the Americas by : Tudor Parfitt
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.
Author |
: Daniel Lis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1599071460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781599071466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of Moses by : Daniel Lis
Author |
: Egodi Uchendu |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2020-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783112208724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3112208722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria by : Egodi Uchendu
Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.
Author |
: John F. McCauley |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2017-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107175013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107175011 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa by : John F. McCauley
The book is aimed at students and scholars of conflict, Africa, ethnic politics, and religion. It may also appeal to religious and political leaders. It proposes a new perspective on how ethnicity and religion shape political outcomes and violence in Africa, adding psychological elements to standard political science arguments.
Author |
: Odi Moghalu |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2015-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781514403433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1514403439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Igbo-Israel by : Odi Moghalu
The legend of The Lost Tribes of Israel remained for scholars, historians, archeologists, anthropologists and Hebraists a fascinating topic for millennia. When Israel faced an imperial conquest in the hands of the Assyrian empire in 722 B.C. as earlier warned by prophets Isaiah and Hosea, the nation also went on exile and into what seemed oblivion. A people who for penalty of apostasy became a dispersed people across the globe for nearly three thousand years creating a puzzle of identity and location for so long has suddenly began to emerge from the shadows of time. The account of their journey and experiences over this period had largely remained conjectures as they assimilated amongst foreign cultures. The Igbo, sojourned in the two sides of lower Niger, one of Africas great rivers second only to the Nile and like other exiled tribes of Israel was relatively unknown to those who never had any contacts with them. The era of trans-Atlantic forced migrations and European colonization opened this connection. The exposition of a peoples beliefs, behavior, attitudes and values within religious, cultural and political context had only affirmed their origin and identity.