In The Shadow Of Moses: New Jewish Movements in Africa and the Diaspora
Daniel Lis, William F.S. Miles and Tudor Parfitt
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In the Shadow of Moses: New Jewish Movements in Africa and the Diaspora presents
original research by an international group of twelve scholars who have
been conducting fieldwork on historic and emerging Jewish communities
in Africa as well as on the interaction of Jews and Africans (and their
descendants) in precolonial Africa and modern day Israel. These New
Jewish Movements are an addition to the New Religious Movements that
have intrigued sociologists and historians of religion for some time;
now, the book argues, the phenomenon contains a global Jewish component
as well. Case studies include Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia,
France, Gabon, Ghana, Jamaica, Madagascar, Nigeria, Uganda, and African
immigrants in Israel. Illustrated by original drawings by graphic-novel
artist Jeremie Dres, the volume will appeal to scholars and general
readers in African as well as Jewish studies. In the Shadow of Moses is
dedicated to the late Professor Ali Mazuri, an early proponent of
scholarly synergies between the study of Africa and the study of the
Jews.
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