GONDAR'S CHILD Songs, Honor, and Identity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel Myths & Fables and motivated even in the

and motivated even in the worst of political climates

and analysis of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on systemic racism

rational work that reveals secrets kept guarded by the American government since the 1940s

Publisher : Skyhorse (September 29

GONDAR'S CHILD Songs, Honor, and Identity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel Myths & Fables and motivated even in theIn Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews were attributed with dishonorable status because of their perceived dissociation from the land. Yet they derived their self ascribed honor from their link with Israel, expressed through their name: Beta Israel (House of Israel). In the Israeli context, the Beta Israels association with Ethiopia constitutes both a limiting factor to their honor, leading to a concern among Beta Israel with the image of their ethnic group, and