Black Jews, Jews, and other heroes; how grassroots activism led to the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews.
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Black Jews, Jews, and other heroes; how grassroots activism led to
the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews Ethiopian Jew
n.
A member of a people of uncertain origin, living since ancient times in what is now central Ethiopia and practicing a form of Judaism. During the period 1984-1991 most Ethiopian Jews were resettled in Israel. .
Lenhoff, Howard M.
Gefen
2007
324 pages
$24.95
Paperback
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Airlifts in the 1970s and 1980s of Ethiopian Jews (also known as
Falasha or Beta Yisrael) to Israel, aided by the American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues: - American Association (19th century), active from 1882 to 1891.
- American Association (20th century), active from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997.
for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ AAEJ American Association for Ethiopian Jews ), was greeted as a modern- day miracle. Lenhoff
(emeritus, U. of California, Irvine), AAEJ president from 1978 to 1982,
relates the inside stories of these rescue operations, including an
exclusive report on Operation Moses Operation Moses, (Hebrew: מבצע משה, Mivtza Moshe), named after the biblical figure Moses, was the covert removal of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" . The book concludes with their
far-from-ideal situation in Israel today, and includes chronologies.
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