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Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped together with a vaguely-defined group of Middle Eastern "Mizrahi" Jews). Noticeably few of us are even aware of the history of the geographically-dispersed Jewish diaspora, including communities in India, China, and Africa, which reveal a fascinating diversity of Jewish people. This comes as no surprise - there are not many reference works to consider, and consequently not much education for the general public about Jews outside these two main groups. Jews from Elsewhere aims to begin to fill that information void.
Edith Bruder has gathered scholars from around the world and a variety of disciplines to sort out the dynamics of those lesser-known, often slumbering worlds. Thirty-four contributors bring to light the cultural universes of these diverse communities, and open up to general readership a millennia-long, interconnected, global history. In this monumental work of scholarship, communities such as the non-Rabbinical Jews of Ethiopia, those scattered around the Amazon rainforest, and the "new Jews" of Asia and Africa (who may or may not claim to belong to the famed Lost Tribes of Israel) are shown to rebuke the common understanding that all Jews share a single common genealogical, cultural, or religious denominator.
Available for the first time in English, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and development of the Jewish diaspora.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part 1. Introduction: From "Diaspora" to the Diasporas, from Exile to Multiculturalism
Edith Bruder: 1: Elsewhere...Differently
Julien Darmon: 2: Exile according to the Bible and Rabbinical Literature
Edith Bruder: 3: The Lost Tribes of Israel: A Modern and Postmodern Myth
Edith Bruder: 4: The Diaspora as a Multicultural Paradigm
Part 2. The Islamic Near East
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein: 5: From Babylon to Iraq
Yaron Harel: 6: Syria, between the Land of Israel and Diaspora
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman: 7: In the Kingdom of Sheba: The Yemeni Jews
Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper: 8: The Ethnography of the Yemenite Jews
Miriam Nissimov: 9: From Cyrus to Khomeini: The Jews of Iran
Süheyla Yildiz: 10: Being Jewish in Turkey: A Three-Pronged Identity Strategy
Dilek Akyalç)in Kaya: 11: Jews, Muslims, Both, or Neither? The Salonican Dönme
Part 3. The Muslim Caucasus and Central Asia
Irena Vladimirsky: 12: At the Heart of the Caucasus: The Mountain Jews
Chen Bram: 13: The Jews of Azerbaijan: Between "Soviet Cosmopolitanism" and (Bi)Nationalism
Irena Vladimirsky: 14: Along the Silk Road: Tashkent and Bukhara
Irena Vladimirsky: 15: The Jews of Afghanistan
Carol Mann: 16: The Ancient Hebrew Origins of the Pashtuns of Afghanistan
Part 4. The Russian Orient
Irena Vladimirsky: 17: The Cantonists' Descendants: Ashkenazi Jewish Communities of Central Asia
Emanuela Trevisan Semi: 18: The Karaites in Crimea
Irena Vladimirsky: 19: Between Christianity and Judaism: The Subbotniks
Irena Vladimirsky: 20: The Birobidjan Project: A History of Jewish Autonomy in the Russian Far East
Mikhail Kizilov: 21: The Thirteenth Tribe: The Imaginary Legacy of the Khazars
Part 5. Latin America and the Caribbean
Paul B. Miller: 22: The Jews of Latin America and the Caribbean
Aviva Ben-Ur: 23: The Jews of Suriname and Brazil
Paul B. Miller: 24: The Jews of the Caribbean
Gina Malagold: 25: The Jews of Mexico
Raanan Rein: 26: Argentina: The Other Promised Land
Romina Yalonetzky: 27: Jewish Life on the Pacific: The Jews of Peru
Aviva Ben-Ur: 28: The Legacy of Marranism
Part 6. India
Nathan Katz: 29: The Jews of India
Shalva Weil: 30: The Bene Israel
Navras J. Aafreedi: 31: The Departure of the Jews of Cochin to Israel: How They Remember versus How They Are Remembered
Nathan Katz: 32: The "Baghdadi" Jews of India, Burma, and Malaya
Yulia Egorova: 33: The Bene Menashe
Yulia Egorova: 34: The Bene Ephraim
Part 7 Sub-Saharan Africa
Edith Bruder: 35: Jewish Communities in Africa in the 20th Century
Lisa Anteby-Yemini: 36: Ethiopian Jews: From Beta Israel to Ethiopian Israelis
Edith Bruder: 37: The Abayudaya of Uganda
Magdel Le Roux: 38: The Lemba of Southern Africa
Edith Bruder: 39: The Igbo of Nigeria
Edith Bruder: 40: The House of Israel in Ghana
Alma Gottlieb: 41: The Jews of Cape Verde
William F. S. Miles: 42: The Jews of Madagascar
Edith Bruder: 43: "New Jews" in Cameroon and Kenya
Part 8. China
Noam Urbach: 44: The Jews of China
Noam Urbach: 45: The Sino-Judaism of Kaifeng
Remi Huppert: 46: The Jewish Communities of Harbin and Tianjin
Noam Urbach: 47: Jews in Shanghai
Alina Patru: 48: Jewish Life in Hong Kong
Part 9. Moving Identities
Sander L. Gilman: 49: Jews on the Move: Images of Cosmopolitan Jews versus Jewish Nomads
Yaakov Ariel: 50: Philo-Semitism from Christian Millenarianism to Contemporary Judaizing Movements
Sergio DellaPergola: 51: Paradigms of "Sephardic and Oriental" Jews: Migration, Social Change, and Identification
Yulia Egorova: 52: Genetics, Community, and Identity
Len Lyons: 53: Jewishness as an Evolving Paradigm: The Case of the Bene Menashe
Bibliography
Glossary of Main Terms
Index
