One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism
"Qäs be-qäs, anqulal be-agerou yehedal" . . . "Little by little, an egg will come to walk upon its own leg." Ethiopian-Israelis fondly quote this bit of Amharic folk wisdom, reflecting upon the slow, difficult history that allowed them to fulfill their destiny far from the Horn of Africa where they were born.\ But today, along with those Ethiopians who have been recognized as Jews by the State of Israel, many who are called. "Feres Mura," the descendants of Ethiopian Jews whose families...
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The Feres Mura, Ethiopian Jews whose families converted to Christianity during the nineteenth century and then reasserted their Jewish identity in the late twentieth century, still await acceptance by Israel. Since the 1980s, they have sought homecoming through the state's right of return law. Instead of a welcoming embrace, Israel's government and society regard them with reticence and suspicion. Using more over ten years of ethnographical research, One People, One Blood expertly documents this tenuous relationship and the challenges facing the Feres Mura.
1 A Death in Addis Ababa2 The Question of Kinship3 Purity of Heart4 Returning to Judaism5 Absorption6 Blood and Terror7 The "Feres Mura" DilemmaNotesReferencesIndex
\ Jewish Book World"Seeman has an eye for multifaceted complexity, and a gift for sensitive exploration of the many tough issues that the existence of the 'Feres Mura' has raised. The book also offers great insight into the concerns and thought processes of morally serious ethnographers."\ \ \ \ \ Shofar"Seeman has done an outstanding job."\ \ \ \ author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba"Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history."\ \
