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Readable and Informative About A Little Known Topic,
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This review is from: The Lost Jews: Last of the Ethiopian Falashas (Hardcover)
The immediate impetus for Louis Rapoport's "The Lost Jews" was the plight of the Ethiopian Falasha tribe during the 70's. They were faced with genocidal policies of a new Marxist regime, centuries-long bigotry from the ruling Christian Amhara tribe, and what amounted to criminal negligence on the part of the Israeli government in regard to recognizing the Falashas as Jews and rescuing them. Rapoport spells this all out in the first chapter, and after this, moves beyond advocacy journalism into the realms of ancient history, folklore, Biblical and rabbinic traditions, and anthropology. This all makes very fascinating reading, as well a strong case for the Falashas legitimate, longstanding claim to being Jews. Along the way a lot of unusual information comes out about Jews as pariah metalworkers, about intercontintental migrations through the centuries, as well as the numerous non-rabbinic, Torah-based Jews in Africa and Asia. The book ends more or less where it begins, with the modern discovery of this remote tribe. Now I wonder how it all turned out, since this book was written 20 years ago.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
ETHIOPIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN JEWS!!!!,
This review is from: The Lost Jews: Last of the Ethiopian Falashas (Hardcover)
What on earth is the point of inventing Jewish roots concerning these deceptive Ethiopians when everybody knows too well why they became Jews: only because it was the only possibility for them to immigrate to Israel only for economic reasons (to flee their undescribable poverty).
Were these Ethiopians Jews in Ethiopia? NO! NEVER EVER!! They were Christians! A significant number of them in Israel returned to their Christian faith even though most of them decided to keep being Jew because they felt it was safer for them to do so in Israel (despite the fact that there is freedom of faith for Christians and Muslims)!! In the history of the Jewish people, there has never ever been members of the Jewish people who were black. Never! Blacks can become Jews today through conversion if they convert without inventing false stories but there is not a group of Jews in the history of the Jewish people who were black Jews! NEVER! I already hear some people reading my comments who might be tempted to say that I am racist but I am telling these people that I am fine accepting blacks who convert to Judaism without inventing false stories in order to convert. To invent false stories in order to convert renders the conversion process completely invalid!! To have converted Jewish Orthodox these Ethiopians do not make them Jews in any way simply because they used deception to convert to Judaism with the goal of immigrating to Israel ONLY FOR ECONOMIC REASONS. They converted only to flee their awful poverty that they were suffering in Ethiopia where they were living in mud huts and nearly all of them, except their leaders, were completely illiterate (they could not read nor write and they did not have access to the simplest books or writing items!!). Later on, these American Jews who have pushed them to convert gave them books, taught them how to read, and more. Why did they become Jews? American Jews who did not want to move to Israel felt guilty by their lack of willingness to move to Israel. They were working on outreach projects in Ethiopia and saw that these people were potentially ready to convert in order to move to Israel with the only goal of fleeing their poverty. They made them Jews by teaching them Judaism, giving their leaders Old Testament books to read and so on. Worse, they invented for them Jewish roots, telling the Jewish world that these Ethiopians were Jews!!! What a shame!! Then, they showed movies of them with Jewish items and praying and they told the viewers of these movies that they have kept Jewish traditions for centuries!! What an awful deception! All these books on the so-called Ethiopian Jews and the movies about them, they are all completely invented stories where these Ethiopian are given completely invented Jewish roots! This book deserves a zero because it is based on pure lies!! That is as simple as that!!
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