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Newsletter 1
Jerusalem, 6 December 2004
Dear Members,
This is my first Newsletter since my election as
President. It is an honour to stand at the head of
such an illustrious association.
Let me open and state how wonderful the Addis Abeba
conference was. It was a feat to organize our
meetings in Ethiopia, and we particularly thank
Amakaletch Teferi, the local organizer, and our
past-President Emanuela Trevisan Semi. I attach a
report of the conference written by Emanuela, to be
published in the journal Aethiopica. In addition, I
attach two photographs by Irene Fertik, with her
permission.
The following persons were elected to the
international committee of SOSTEJE: INTERNATIONAL
COMMITTEE
President: Shalva Weil
Vice-President: Emanuela Trevisan Semi
Scientific Coordinator: Lisa Anteby
Treasurer: Vittorio Morabito
Student Representative: Simha Getahon
Members: Michael Corinaldi (Israel)
Teferi Amekeletch (Ethiopia and France)
Shiferaw Bakele (Ethiopia)
Daniel Friedman (France)
Ruby Newman (Canada)
Shlomo Akale (Israel Coordinator)
In addition, Ephraim Isaac (U.S.A.) agreed to serve
on the committee, and this decision was ratified by
all committee members.
Kindly send all references for the next bibliography
to Lisa Anteby, email -
anteby@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
She will send out a periodic list of publications
with the newsletters, but it is up to you to inform
her of any published work or dissertation.
If anyone is a paid-up member for 2004 and did not
receive the 2001-2004 bibliography, it is available
free of charge. Please inform me. If a non-member
wishes to receive it, it costs 20 shekels or $5.
In addition, an Israel committee was elected
consisting of the following members:
ISRAEL COMMITTEE
Israelis on international committee as above (Shalva
Weil, Michael Corinaldi, Shlomo Akale, Simha
Getahon)
Bat-Zion Klorman-Eraqi
Gadi Ben-Ezer
Anita Nudelman
Shimon Solomon
Yarden Fanta
Malka Shabtay and Michael Glatzer were co-opted.
The Israel committee met on 2.12.04 and it was
decided, with the help of Michael Corinaldi, to set
up SOSTEJE in Israel as an "amuta" (official
organization) so that we can work with finances in
an official and legal manner.
It was further decided to set up a sub-committee
under Simha Getahon to organize a student conference
on research on Beta Israel in Israel in the coming
year.
I aim to widen the membership of SOSTEJE. In our
next newsletter, we will inform you how to enlist as
members for 2005. Meanwhile, if you know of anyone
who would like to be on our mailing list, please
send me their email addresses. I intend to write to
you with information whenever the need presents
itself. All communication will be by email from now
on, and all comments are welcome by email only.
I would like to thank the Ben Zvi Institute and
Michael Glatzer in particular, for editing and
sending out by mail the past newsletters. The Ben
Zvi Institute has agreed to continue helping SOSTEJE
with academic matters, and, as mentioned above,
Michael Glatzer has agreed to be a member of the
Israel Committee. The newsletter will also include a
section with letters from members in order to
promote dialogue and help each other in research
matters. Please reply to Ronald Lipman (UK) if you
have any information for him in reply to his letter.
Finally, we all have special memories of Ethiopia
and the Addis conference. Let us hope that we can
see each other at the Sosteje - History
soon. Sincerely,
Shalva Weil
President
Letters from Members:
From R. Lipman, E-mail Address(es):
lipman-ronald@ukonline.co.uk
1. Where were the absorption centers located after
the Falashas(sic) had arrived?
2 Who was in charge of settling them down? Were
there several agencies and government bodies?
3.How long did they stay in the absorption centers?
4. Where did they go from there apart from the 'tent
cities' Can you name the geographical areas towns
etc? Was there a policy of dispersal? Do the
Falashas have a leader and do they have a council?
5 How did the Falashas organise themselves?Given
that they wanted to be together
6 Do they have their own meeting places or
synagogues?
7 How did they keep themselves or did the first
generation rely on government handouts?
8 Did they try to keep their own culture? |
