Judaism in Ethiopia (c.70-present)

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Sources:

Galia Sabar Friedman
"Religion and the Marxist State in Ethiopia: the Case of the Ethiopian Jews"
https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/rc...
Religion in Communist Lands, Vol. 17, No. 3

Steven Kaplan
The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
https://amzn.to/3S7qLRP

Emanuela Trevisan Semi
"Between Italy and Ethiopia, Western and African Judaism: The Story of Taamrat Emmanuel, a Jewish Intellectual from Ethiopia"
https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/betw...
Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, No. 19

0:00 Intro
3:19 Mistaken Origins
5:09 The Egyptian Hypothesis
7:15 The Yemenite Hypothesis
8:23 Late Antiquity
10:13 The Ethiopian Dark Age
12:07 The Beta Israel Golden Age
13:44 The House of Gedawon
16:26 The Gondar Period
17:25 The Missionary Crisis
20:58 Kifu-Qen and Its Aftermath
23:54 World War II
25:06 The Derg and Aliyah