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Author Parfitt, Tudor

Title Judaising movements : studies in the margins of Judaism in modern times / Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Published Richmond ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
Series SOAS Centre for Near and Middle East studies
SOAS Centre for Near and Middle East studies
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Judaising Movements and Colonial Discourse; 2 Israel in China A Judaising Discourse in the Far East; 3 The Lemba An African Judaising Tribe; 4 Conversion and Judaisation The 'Lost Tribes' Committees at the Birth of the Jewish State; 5 A Conversion Movement in Italy Jewish Universalism, Conversion and Gender in San Nicandro; 6 The 'Falashisation' of the Blacks of Harlem A Judaising Movement in 20th-century USA; Bibliography; Notes; Index
Summary This book looks at the role of colonialism in the development of Judaising movements throughout the world, including New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and Africa
Notes "SOAS Centre for Near and Middle East Studies"--Pages 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-120) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 18, 2014)
Subject Conversion -- Judaism -- History -- 20th century
Judaism -- Relations -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Conversion -- Judaism
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Trevisan Semi, Emanuela
University of London. Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
ISBN 0700715150
9780700715152
9781136860348
1136860347