Parfitt, Tudor.

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas [electronic resource] / Tudor Parfitt. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - xiii, 225 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The color of Jews -- Lost tribes of Israel in Africa -- Ham's children -- Judaic practices and superior stock -- Half white and half black -- The emergence of Black Jews in the United States -- Divine geography and Israelite identities -- The internalization of the Israelite myth -- History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews.

9780674066984 (hardcover alk. paper) 9780674067905 (e-book)


Jews--History.--Africa
African Americans--Relations with Jews.
African American Jews--History.


Africa--History.
Africa--Colonial influence--History.
Africa--Ethnic relations.
United States--Ethnic relations.