Tama Galut Etiopiya : The Ethiopian Exile Is Over

Abstract

Kaplan points out that although the Ethiopian-Israeli community is by far the most discussed of all Ethiopian expatriate groups, relatively little has been written about Ethiopian Israelis that places them in the larger context of the Ethiopian diaspora, or even treats them as a diaspora community. Ethiopian Israelis are unusual in that their presence in Israel is predicated on a narrative that reverses the one found in other Ethiopian diaspora communities. Whether in migration stories, rituals, or transnational practices, it is primarily the millennia of life in Ethiopia that are represented as a diasporic experience, while their very recent arrival in Israel is portrayed as a return home. Kaplan analyzes different facets of Ethiopian-Israeli cultural life and seeks to demonstrate the connections between the narrative they have chosen and their need to establish their credentials as bona fide Jews in the Jewish state.

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