Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France
"This book describes the multiple ways in which Black Jews in France practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and reconstruct their identities. After fifteen years of fieldwork, Dr. Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot offers an original analysis of their individual and collective itin...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Lanham
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Scripturalization discourse, formation, power
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
France
/ Jews
/ Blacks
/ Judaism
/ Identity
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| Further subjects: | B
Black race
B France Race relations B France Ethnic relations B Black Hebrews (France) B Black people Religion B Black people (France) Social conditions |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "This book describes the multiple ways in which Black Jews in France practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and reconstruct their identities. After fifteen years of fieldwork, Dr. Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot offers an original analysis of their individual and collective itineraries"-- History of the Presence of Jews and Blacks in France -- Self-Identification or Quest of Jewishness -- Patterns of Conversion of Africans and West Indians to Judaism: From Christian to Jew -- Black Jews' Insertion in the French Jewry -- Black Jewish Organizations in France -- Interracial Marriages -- Being Black and Jewish in France today. |
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| Item Description: | "Published by Lexington Books/Fortress Academic"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 269 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 1978716567 |