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Falasha
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Falasha a member of a group of people in Ethiopia who hold the Jewish faith but use Ge'ez rather than Hebrew as a liturgical language. The Falashas were not formally recognized as Jews until 1975, and many of them were airlifted to Israel in 1984–5 and after. Also called
Black Jew.
The name is Amharic, and means literally ‘exile, immigrant’.
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From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews: The External Influences for Change c. 1860-1960.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews: The External Influences...in creating a process of change of the Falashas/Beta Israel in Ethiopia. The book...chapters devoted to the "discovery" of the Falashas and to the work of the protestant missionaries...
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Falashas adding to Israel's color.(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 3/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...decades to save the lives of Ethiopia's Falashas - the black Jews, whose very name means...the modern state of Israel. But the Falashas posed a whole new set of challenges...resolution was repealed, even as the Falashas were settling into their new home and...
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Israeli minister acts over fate of Falashas
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/7/2000; ; 501 words
; ...intensifying dispute over the fate of the Falashas - the Ethiopians whose Jewish ancestors...organisations worldwide - to admit the Falashas, whose estimated numbers range from...economy can absorb them. Supporters of the Falashas accuse Israel of discriminating against...
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ISRAEL TO TAKE REMAINING FALASHAS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/8/2004; 301 words
; ...Press International 01-08-2004 Israel to take remaining Falashas ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Jan 08, 2004 (United Press International...would not occur all at once. "We could like to bring all Falashas to Israel beginning next week," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom...
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Falashas Again
Newspaper article from: Chicago Jewish Star; 7/16/1998; 587 words
; Falashas again Since its creation 50 years ago, the State of Israel has not only welcomed but sought out and rescued Jews from lands of...
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Israel to take remaining Falashas.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/8/2004; 375 words
; ...Ethiopia's Jews to the Jewish state, but warned the transfer would not occur all at once. "We could like to bring all Falashas to Israel beginning next week," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters in Addis Ababa, referring to the Ethiopian...
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Refuge for Ethiopia's Jews
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/13/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Operation Moses" spirited some 10,000 Falashas out of refugee camps in the Sudan and...Ethiopian Jews. Her thesis is simple: the Falashas, a persecuted minority whose fate had...Ethiopian peasants in recent years. But the Falashas, with their ancient and unique tradition...
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Middle East History: It Happened in May; Jews From Ethiopia Face Discrimination On Arrival in Israel
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to Israel with the black Jews, called Falashas in Hebrew. 1 The rescue operation came...they were black. The odyssey of the Falashas is a tale of daring and social inequity...for six years. An ancient tribe, the Falashas kept their Jewish faith over the millennia...
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He 'discovered' Falasha Jews 100 years ago
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 3/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the arduous journey to the mysterious Falashas, or beta Israel (House of Israel...scholar Shumel Luzzatto, visited the Falashas in the early 19th century. Under the...Faitlovitch's teacher, Halevy, visited the Falashas in 1867 and brought back much information...
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Facing racial divisions in Israel.(Commentary)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/7/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...s strangest peoples. Long known as "Falashas" -which means "stranger" or "foreigner...time, into the 20th century. Since the Falashas had been isolated - so isolated as to...suddenly and grew furiously. It began when Falashas learned that Israeli health officials...
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Falashas
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Falashas Ethnic group of black Jews in Ethiopia, probably descended from early converts...many migrated to Israel. During the early 1980s, there were c. 30,000 Falashas living in Ethiopia, but amid the war and famine that ensued, thousands...
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Ethiopia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Until the 1980s a small group of Jews, known as Beta Israel or Falashas , lived north of Lake Tana in Gondar. In the midst of famine...airlifted out in 1991. By the end of 1999 virtually all the Falashas who were practicing Jews had been flown to Israel. Amharic...
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Stern, Henry Aaron
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...was later ordained. He worked among Jews in various parts of the Middle East, and in Ethiopia did notable work among the Falashas, the so-called ‘Black Jews’. His later years were spent in missionary activity in London.
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Falasha
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...of a group of people in Ethiopia who hold the Jewish faith but use Ge'ez rather than Hebrew as a liturgical language. The Falashas were not formally recognized as Jews until 1975, and many of them were airlifted to Israel in 1984–5 and after...
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Israel
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...began in Israeli-occupied territory. From 1989–92 Israel's population rose by 10%, due to the immigration of Falashas and Soviet Jews. Increasing Jewish settlement inflamed the popular uprising. During the Gulf War (1991) Israel was the...
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