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Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry
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Edited Volumes
Four edited volumes have been published with the proceedings of SOSTEJE’s international conferences:

Kaplan, Steve, Parfitt, Tudor and Emanuela Trevisan Semi,  eds. 1995 Between Africa and Zion. Proceedings of the first International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute (pp. 257). (Proceedings of the SOSTEJE Venice Conference).
 
Parfitt, Tudor and Emanuela Trevisan Semi, eds. 1999. The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on the Ethiopian Jews, Curzon, London (Proceedings of the SOSTEJE Jerusalem and Beersheba Conference).
 
Parfitt, Tudor and Emanuela Trevisan Semi, eds. 2005. The Jews of Ethiopia: the Birth of an Elite, Routledge/Curzon, London (Proceedings of the SOSTEJE Milan Conference).
 
Friedmann. Daniel. 2007. Les Juifs d"Ethiopie: de Joseph Halevy a nos jours,Paris: Alliance israelite universelle.(Proceedings of the SOSTEJE Paris conference).


Bibliographies
The unprecedented interest in the way of life of the Beta Israel in Ethiopia and the fascination into the adaptation of the Ethiopian Jews to Israeli society continues to be expressed in a large number of publications on this relatively small ethnic group
SOSTEJE publishes bibliographies at each conference e.g. at the conference in  Paris, France in October 2001,  and at the conference  in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia in September 2004. The bibliographise  include all known references to publications on Ethiopian Jewry. The bibliography is compiled on the basis of research, and submission of references to this scientific coordinator. It includes academic and quasi-academic works of interest to researchers, but neither newspaper articles nor unpublished works are included.
 
For example, in the Addis Abeba bibliography, there are 99 entries, including full-scale books, scientific articles and book reviews. Particularly important are the dissertations from different countries, which will lead to more scientific publications in the future.  A new development is the growing number of encyclopedia entries, particularly in the  Encyclopedia Aethiopica (Uhlig, S. Ed.) Weisbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag (2003, 2006), which already contains a disproportionate number of entries on the Beta Israel compared to their size, but commensurate with their historical and sociological significance.
 
To date, three bibliographies have been produced on the basis of the SOSTEJE lists of publications, as follows:
Salamon, H. and Kaplan, S. Eds. (1998). Ethiopian Jewry: An Annotated Bibliography 1988-1997, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute.
Weil, S. (2001). Bibliography on Ethiopian Jewry (1998-2001), Paris: Sosteje (Society for the Study of the Ethiopian Jewry).
Weil, S. (2004). Bibliography on Ethiopian Jewry (1998-2001), Addis Abeba: Sosteje (Society for the Study of the Ethiopian Jewry).
 
Current Lists of Publications
 
In most SOSTEJE newsletters, a current list of recent publications is provided for the use of our members.
International committee member Ruby Newman (Canada) is the scientific coordinator.

Kindly send all references of publications  for the next newsletter to Ruby Newman - rnewman@yorku.ca

 

List Of Recent Publications

Books

Scientific Articles in Journals

Scientific Articles in Collected Works

Encyclopaedia Entries

Dissertation

Reports

Other

Books

 Lenhoff, Howard. 2007. Black Jews, Jews and Other Heroes, Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House. - To Book Review By Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman

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Scientific Articles in Journals

 Berhanu, Girma. 2005. “Indigenous Conception of Intelligence, Ideal Child, and Ideal Parenting among Ethiopian Jew in Israel”, Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 47-71.

 Berhanu, Girma. 2006. “Intercultural mediation, the institution of learning and the process of educational integration and assimilation: the case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel”, Education Research and Review, vol. 1 n° 3, pp. 62-79.

 Berhanu, Girma. 2006. “Mediated Learning Activities between Caregivers and Children among New Immigrants and Veterans in Israel: An Experiment on Two "Home- Based" Tasks”, Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, vol. 6, n°1,.pp.72-99.

Berhanu, Girma. 2006. “Parenting (Parental Attitude), Child Development and Modalities of Parent- Child Interaction: Saying, Proverbs, and Maxims of Ethiopian Jews in Israel”, Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, vol. 5, n° 3, pp.266-287.

Edelstein, Arnon. 2003. "Concept of Identity of Youth of Ethiopian origin in Israel", Mifgash le-Avoda Hikhunit-Sozialit, Vol. 18, pp. 73-97 (in Hebrew).

Edelstein, Arnon. 2004. "Use of Psychoactive Drugs among Youth of Ethiopian Origin in Israel", Mishtara ve-Hevrat, Vol. 8, pp. 95-126 (in Hebrew).

Edelstein, Arnon. 2005. "Suicidal Tendencies among Youth of Ethiopian Origin in Israel", Minhal hevra ve noar, Vol. 13, pp. 79-105 (in Hebrew). 

Halperin at al., 2006. “Ethnic Stereotypes and Social Distance in Israeli Society”, Social Issues in Israel, n° 1.

Kaplan, Steven. 2006. "Genealogies and Gene-Ideologies: The Legitimacy of the Beta Israel (Falasha)",  Social Identities, Vol. 12 (4) : 447-455.

Levin-Rozalis, M. 2004a. Searching for the Unknowable: A Process of Detection — Abductive Research Generated by Projective Techniques. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol 3(2). Article 1.

Levin-Rozalis, M., 2004b. Re-visited: A Tracer Study Ten Years Later. Detective Process. Journal of Early Childhood Research. Vol 2(3), pp. 271-296

Trevisan Semi, Emanuela. 2005. “Report on the Vth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry (SOSTEJE) held at the Addis Abeba University 13-15 October 2004”, Aethiopica, Vol. 8: 301-303.

Ziv, Yossi. 2004. “Circumcision Performed by a Woman in Rabbinic Literature and amongst Ethiopian Jews', Netuim, September, pp. 39–54 (in Hebrew).

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Scientific Articles in Collected Works

 Edelstein, Arnon. 2005. "Juvenile delinquency among Ethiopian Youth in Israel", in N. Queloz et al., eds., Youth Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, Stampfli, Bern, pp. 221-236.

Kaplan, Steven. 2005. “Ethiopian Prisoners of Zion: The Struggle for Recognition in a Bureaucratic Setting”, in D. Nosnitsin, ed., in collaboration with S. Frantsouzoff, L. Kogan and B. Lourie, Scrinium 1, Varia Aethiopica, In Memory of Sevir B. Chernetsov (1943-2005), Byzantinorossica, Saint-Petersburg, pp. 100-114.

Smidt, Wolbert. "Deutsche Briefe von Aethiopian 1855-1869: aus dem Umkreis der protestantische Mission zer Regierunzeit von Tewodros II", 287-316 (includes letters from Flad, Dabtara Berru etc).

Sohn, Sigrid. 2005. "A 'Yiddish Journey' to Ethiopia: Chaim Shoshkes's Book Durkh Umbakante Lender," in Materia Giudaica, Fascicolo II, Bologna, a Cura di: Mauro Perani pp. 365-373.

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Encyclopaedia Entries

 Heintz-Flad, Wilfred. 2005. "Flad, Johannes Martin", pp. 552-553; "Flad, Pauline Keller", pp. 553, in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2,

Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden, Kaplan, Steven. 2005. “Dan”, pp. 80-81; “David Ben Solomon Ibn Abi Zimra”, pp. 108; “Dersanä Abreham wäsara bägebs”, pp. 137; “Eldad Ha-Dani”, pp. 252; “Esato”, pp. 376-377; “Faitlovitch, Jacques”, pp. 483-484; . “Folktales (Beta Israel)”, pp. 559; “Gorgoryos, apocalypse of”, pp. 857; “Halévy, Joseph”, pp. 976-977; “Handicrafts (of the Beta Israel)”, pp. 1003, in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2, Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden,

Nosnitsin, Denis. 2002. "Dersana Sanbat", in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2, Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden, pp. 141-142.

Pankhurst, Richard. 2005. “Falasa Bet”, in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2, Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden, pp. 484-485.

Quirin, James. 2005. “Beta Israel in Gondar”, pp. 843; “Fasting of the Beta Isra’el”, pp. 503-504, "Gedewon", pp. 730, in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2, Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden,.

Strebel, Barbara. 2005. "Gobat, Samuel", in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2, Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden, pp. 818-819.

Weil, Shalva. 2005. “Gwushen”, in Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica vol. 2, Harrasowitz Verlag, Weisbaden, pp. 940.

Weil, Shalva, 2006 "Ethiopian Jewish Women", Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, M. Shalvi, (ed). Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing Ltd. (CD-ROM)

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Dissertation

 Tal, Ilana. 2004. Exploring the meaning of becoming a woman in a non-Western culture: a narrative analysis of first menstruation stories of Ethiopian Jewish women. PhD. Dissertation. Fielding Graduatz Institute. Fanta-Vangenstein, Yarden. 2007.  The Effect of Transition from an Agrarian Society to a Knowledge-based Society on Technological Literacy among Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel, Ph.D. Thesis, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew).

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Reports

 Friedman, Golan,M., Even-Zahah,R. and Getahune, S. 2004. The Relationship Between Mother and Daughters of Ethiopian Descent.  The Interdisciplinary Center for Children and Youth Studies. Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University. Funded by Elem( in Hebrew).

Wolde-Tsadick, Abrham. 2006. Ethiopian Integration – Education and Employement: new findings in brief, Myers –JDC- Brookdale Institue, Jerusalem,7pp. (in Hebrew)

Belasha, Segia. 2005. Development of the Fiscal Influence of Ethiopian Olim in the Long Term, School of Public Policy, Hebrew University, the Orange Series, Jerusalem, 48p. (in Hebrew) see http://public-policy.huji.ac.il

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Other

 Redda, Uri. 2005. From Ethiopia through Sudan to Mount Herzl: the Tragedy of Operation Moses and the Struggle for Memorialization, Ramat Gan: Ot Lamofet.

Shmuel, Naomi 2006. Ha-yareach hou Dabbo, Jerusalem: Yuval Press (children’s book, in Hebrew)

Shmuel, Naomi 2006. Maayanot Tagau, Jerusalem: Yuval Press (children’s book, in Hebrew)

Eretz Aheret special issue n° 30 Oct-Nov. 2005 on “Zion that Disappointed: Ethiopian Jews in Israel”.

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