BOOKS
Dr. Ruth's Guide to Grandparenting
(New York: Routledge, 1998) in press, with Ruth K. Westheimer.
Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish
Family in Transition ( New York: New York University, 1992) with Ruth K.Westheimer.
The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia:
From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (New York: New York University Press,
1992, 1995 paperback)'Outstanding Book 1993' by Choice.
Les Falã shã s ( Tournhout: Editions Brepols, 1990).
The Monastic Holy Man and the
Christianization of Early Solomonic Ethiopia (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1984)
EDITED WORKS
Ethiopian Jews: An annotated Bibliography
(Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1998,in press) With Hagar Salamon.
Brussels and Jerusalem: From Conflict to
Solution (Jerusalem: Centre d'Études des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques,
Université Libre de Brussels and Harry S Truman Research Institute, 1996), with Joë l
Kottek and Simone Susskind.
Between Africa and Zion: Proceedings of
the First International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry
(Jerusaelm: Ben Zvi Institute, 1995) with Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Indigenous Responses to Western
Christianity (New York: New York University Press, 1995) Chosen as one of the
Fifteen Outstanding Books in Mission Studies for 1995 by the International Review of
Mission Research.
Ethiopian Jews: A Bibliography
(Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1988), with Shoshana Ben-Dor.
ARTICLES
"Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel:
Experience and Prospect" (London: Institute of Jewish Policy Research, 1998)
"The Social and Religious Function of
the Eucharist in Medieval Ethiopia", in Roderick Grierson ed., Miscellanea
Aethioipca: essays presented to Richard Pankhurst on his seventieth birthday (1998,
forthcoming)
"Children and Childhood in Medieval
Ethiopia", International Journal of African Historical Studies (1998,
forthcoming)
"Did Jewish Influences Reach Ethiopia
via the Nile?", Zemanim 60 (1997, 61-69. (H)
Also published in English:
"Did Jewish Influences Reach Ethiopia
via the Nile?", in Haggai Erlich and Isrel Gershoni eds., The Nile: Civilizations,
History, Myths (Lynn Rienner Press, forthcoming)
"Everyday Resistance and the Study of
Ethiopian Jewry", Theory and Criticism 10 (1997), 163-173. (H)
Also Published in English:
"Everyday Resistance and the Study of
Ethiopian Jewry", in Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the
Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry eds. David Appleyard, Tudor Parfitt, and
Emanuela Trevisan Semi (London: Curzon, 1998 - forthcoming)
"Les Falashas' in Aethiopia:Peuples
d'Éthiopie. Xavier Van der Stappen, ed., (Cultures and Communications, Tervuren)
1996, 229-236.
"Created in their Own Image: A Comment
on Falasha Figurines", Cahiers d'études africaines 141-2 (1996), 171-182,
with Chaim Rosen.
"Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel" Ethiopian
Register III, 4 (1996), 17-19.
"History, Halakha and Identity:
The Beta Israel and World Jewry", Israel Social Science Research 10 (2)
(1995), 13-24.
Also published in Hebrew:
"History, Halakha and Identity:
The Beta Israel and World Jewry", ed. Shalva Weil, (Jerusalem: School of Education,
Hebrew University, 1997, 23-33. (H)
"Introduction" to Indigenous
Responses to Western Christianity, ed. Steven Kaplan (New York: New York University
Press, 1995), 1-8.
"Seen but not Heard: Towards a History
of Children and Childhood in Ethiopia", in New Trends in Ethiopian Studies: Papers
of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, ed., Harold
Marcus, (Lawrenceville, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 1994), vol. I, 814-821.
"The Immigration and Absorption of
Ethiopian Jews in Israel", in American Jewish Yearbook 1994 (New York:
American Jewish Committee, 1994), 59-109, with Chaim Rosen.
"The Invention of Ethiopian Jews: Three
Models", Cahiers d'études africaines 132 (1994), 645-658.
"Beta Israel Studies: Achievements and
Challenges", Pe'amim 58 (1994), 137-150. (H)
Also published in English:
"Beta Israel Studies toward the Year
2000", in Between Africa and Zion eds., Steven Kaplan, Tudor Parfitt, and
Emanula Trevisan Semi, (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1995), 9-20.
Introduction and Annotation to Joseph
Halévy's 'Travels in Abyssinia', Pe'amim 58 (1994), 5-66 (H)
"Beta Israel (Falasha) Religion: Ancient
Judaism or Evolving Ethiopian Tradition?" in Etudes ethiopiennes: Proceedings of
the Tenth International Congress of Ethiopian Studies (Paris, 1994), vol. I., 107-114.
"Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel: Between
Preservation of Culture and Invention of Tradition", Jewish Journal of Sociology
35 (1) (1993), 35-48, with Chaim Rosen.
Reprinted:
"Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel: Between
Preservation of Culture and Invention of Tradition", in Immigration to Israel:
Sociological Prespectives. Studies in Israeli Society, 8 eds., Elazar Leshem and
Judith T. Shuval (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, in press, 1998).
"Falasha Christians: A Brief
History", Midstream 39 (1) (January 1993), 20-21.
"Indigenous Categories and the Study of
World Religions in Ethiopia: The Case of the Beta Israel (Falasha)", Journal of
Religion in Africa 22 (3) (1992), 208-221.
"From Ayhud to Ethiopian
Jews", International Problems 30 (3-4) (1991), 36-55.
"The Two Zions and the Exodus from
Ethiopia", (Review article) Studies in Contemporary Jewry 7 (1991), 298-305.
"The Study of Beta Israel Literature:
Retrospect and Prospect", Pe'amim 41 (1990), 90-111 (H)
Reprinted in revised form in English:
"The Literature of the Beta Israel
(Falasha): A Survey of a Biblical-Hebraic Tradition", Khristianskij Vostok 1
(1998, forthcoming)
"Kifu-qen: The Great Famine of
1888-1892 and the Beta Israel (Falasha)", Paideuma 36 (1990), 67-77.
"'Falasha' Religion: Ancient Judaism or
Evolving Ethiopian Tradition", Jewish Quarterly Review 89 (1) (July 1988),
49-65.
"Historical Introduction" to
Michael Corinaldi, Ethiopian Jewry: Identity and Tradition (Jerusalem: Reuben Maas,
1988), 5-23. (H)
Revised and expanded in English, Michael
Corinaldi, (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1998 forthcoming)
"The Beta Israel and the Rabbinate: Law,
Ritual and Politics", Social Science Information 28 (3) (1988), 357-370.
"The Falasha and the Mission: A Note on
an Encounter", Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of Ethiopian
Studies (Moscow, 1988), vol. 4, 116-122.
"Some Hebrew Sources on the Beta Israel
(Falasha)", Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian
Studies (Cambridge, 1988), vol. 1, 122-128.
"Christianity and the Early State in
Ethiopia", in The Early State in African Perspective, eds. Shmuel Eisenstadt,
Naomi Chazan and Michel Abitbol (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988), 148-167.
"Leadership and Communal Organization
among the Beta Israel: An Historical Study", Encyclopaedia Judaica Yearbook
1986-1987 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1988), 154-163.
"Te'ezaza Sanbat: A Beta Israel Work
Reconsidered", in Gilgul (Supplements to Numen 50), eds., Shauel Shaked, David
Shulman and Gedaliah Stroumsa (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1987), 107-124.
"The Beta Israel (Falasha) Encounter
with Protestant Missionaries 1860-1905", Jewish Social Studies 49 (1987),
27-42.
"The Origins of the Beta Israel: Five
Methodological Cautions", Pe'amim 33 (1987), 33-49. (H)
"A Short History of the Beta
Israel", in The Jews of Ethiopia: A Community in Transition, Y. Avner et. al.
eds (Tel Aviv: The Diaspora Museum, 1986), 11-29.
Also published in Hebrew:
"The Africanization of Missionary
Christianity: History and Typology", Journal of Religion in Africa 16 (3)
(1986), 165-186.
Also published in:
Steven Kaplan, ed., Indigenous Responses
to Western Christianity (New York: New York University Press, 1995), 9-28.
"The Ethiopian Cult of the Saints - A
Preliminary Investigation", Paideuma 32 (1986), 1-13.
"Iyasus Mo'a and Takla Haymanot: A Note
on a Hagiographic Controversy". Journal of Semitic Studies 31 (1) (1986),
47-56.
"Court and Periphery in Ethiopian
Christianity", Asian and African Studies 20 (1986), 141-152.
Reprinted as: "Court and Periphery in
Ethiopian Christianity" in Nehemiah Levtzion and Humphrey Fisher Rural and Urban
Islam in West Africa (Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1987), 135-146.
"The Rise of the Monastic Holy Man in
the Early Solomonic Period", in Gideon Goldenberg, ed., Ethiopian Studies:
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Rotterdam,
1986), 243-257.
"Histoire et Tradition: Les Chefs de
Communautes Beta Israel et Leur Evolution", Les Temps Moderns, 41 (Janvier
1986), 80-100.
'The Ethiopian Holy Man as Outsider and
Angel', Religion 15 (1985), 235-249.
"On the Ethiopian Judeo-Christian
Context of the History of the Beta Israel", Pe'amim 22 (1985). 17-31 (H)
Also published in English: 'The Beta Israel
(Falasha) in their Ethiopian Context', Israel Social Science 3 (1985), 9-20.
and
Ethiopian Jews and Israel, eds. M. Ashkenazi and A. Weingrod, (New Brunswick:
Transaction Press, 1987), 9-20.
'A Note on The Hebrew Letters of Prester
John', Journal of Jewish Studies 36, 2 (1985), 230-234.
'The Falasha and the Stephanite: An Episode
from Gadla Gabra Masih', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
48 (1985), 278-282.
'On the Relevance of Ethiopian Studies for
the Study of the Falasha'. Pe'amim 21 (1984), 141-7. (H)
'A Source for the History of the Beta Israel
(Falasha) from the Life of Abuna Takla Hawaryat', Pe'amim 15 (1983), 113-124
(H).
'Ezana's Conversion Reconsidered', Journal
of Religion in Africa 13 (1982), 101-109.
'Hagiographies and the History of Medieval
Ethiopia', History in Africa 8 (1981), 107-123.
Areas of Interest:
Social and Religious History of Medieval Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia and Israel,
Missionary Christianity.
Lecture Topics:
Jerusalem: Sacred City to Three Faiths
From Falasha to Ethiopian Jews
Judaism and Christianity in Ethiopia
From Sheba to Beersheva: Ethiopian Jews in
Israel
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