Falashas Quick reference
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
... A tribe of black Jews in Ethiopia, many of whom have now emigrated to Israel. The name ‘Falashas’, meaning ‘strangers’, is pejorative and is never used by the Beta Israel (‘House of Israel’) as these Ethiopian Jews call...
Falashas Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
... Ethnic group of black Jews in Ethiopia, probably descended from early converts to Judaism . Their form of religion relies solely on observance of the Old Testament . Israel acknowledged them as Jews in 1975 , and, suffering discrimination at home, many migrated to Israel. During the early 1980s, there were c .30,000 Falashas living in Ethiopia, but amid the war and famine that ensued, thousands were airlifted to...
Falashas Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... . Jews of Ethiopian origin. The Falashas themselves claim to be descended from Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1 Kings 10. 1–13). Most experts believe they belong to the Agau family of tribes to whom Judaism spread from S. Arabia. They call themselves ‘Beta Esrael’ (House of Israel ) and live in their own separate villages, the best known of which are near the town of Gondar. They keep the ritual food law of the Pentateuch ; they circumcise their sons on the eighth day; they observe the Sabbath and Day of Atonement , ...
Falashas
Falasha Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... (Amharic, ‘exile, immigrant’) A member of a group of people of the Jewish faith in Ethiopia. They were not officially recognized as Jews until 1975 . From the mid-1980s a number of them were resettled in...
Falasha Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... a member of a group of people in Ethiopia who hold the Jewish faith but use Ge'ez rather than Hebrew as a liturgical language. The Falashas were not formally recognized as Jews until 1975 , and many of them were airlifted to Israel in 1984–5 and after. Also called Black Jew . The name is Amharic, and means literally ‘exile,...
Falasha Quick reference
New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Asher , clasher, Falasha, flasher, lasher, masher, Natasha, pasha, rasher, Sasha, slasher, smasher, thrasher • haberdasher • gatecrasher • Marsha • rancher • flesher , fresher, pressure, thresher • welsher • adventure , bencher, censure, dementia, front-bencher, trencher, venture, wencher • backbencher • acupressure • acacia , Asia, Croatia, Dalmatia, ex gratia, geisha • Lucretia , magnesia, Rhodesia, Venetia • Fischer , fisher, fissure, justiciar, Laetitia, militia, Patricia, Phoenicia, Tricia • clincher , flincher, lyncher, wincher...
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Jubilees, Book of Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...Book of . Pseudepigraphic Jewish book. The Book of Jubilees dates from the second Temple period and is supposedly the revelation of an angel to Moses . It consists of a recitation of the events of Genesis 1–Exodus 12, as dated according to jubilee years. The Falashas have based their calendar upon its...
Ten lost tribes Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...lost tribes . The Jewish tribes who disappeared from history after the Assyrian conquest of 722 bce . The rabbis believed they were in exile beyond the river Sambatyon . Various identifications have been made. The Falashas were said to be a lost tribe, as have been the British (i.e. the British Israelites), the Japanese, the Afghans, and certain Red Indian...
