Jews from Elsewhere
Forgotten Diasporas and Singular Jewish Identities
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 February 2026
- ISBN 9780197750926
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 234x156x33 mm
- Weight 894 g
- Language English 683
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Short description:
Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped together with a vaguely-defined group of Middle Eastern "Mizrahi" Jews). Noticeably few of us are even aware of the history of the geographically-dispersed Jewish diaspora, including communities in India, China, and Africa, which reveal a fascinating diversity of Jewish people. This comes as no surprise - there are not many reference works to consider, and consequently not much education for the general public about Jews outside these two main groups. Jews from Elsewhere aims to begin to fill that information void.
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Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped together with a vaguely-defined group of Middle Eastern "Mizrahi" Jews). Noticeably few of us are even aware of the history of the geographically-dispersed Jewish diaspora, including communities in India, China, and Africa, which reveal a fascinating diversity of Jewish people. This comes as no surprise - there are not many reference works to consider, and consequently not much education for the general public about Jews outside these two main groups. Jews from Elsewhere aims to begin to fill that information void.
Edith Bruder has gathered scholars from around the world and a variety of disciplines to sort out the dynamics of those lesser-known, often slumbering worlds. Thirty-four contributors bring to light the cultural universes of these diverse communities, and open up to general readership a millennia-long, interconnected, global history. In this monumental work of scholarship, communities such as the non-Rabbinical Jews of Ethiopia, those scattered around the Amazon rainforest, and the "new Jews" of Asia and Africa (who may or may not claim to belong to the famed Lost Tribes of Israel) are shown to rebuke the common understanding that all Jews share a single common genealogical, cultural, or religious denominator.
Available for the first time in English, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and development of the Jewish diaspora.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Introduction: From “Diasporaâ€- to the Diasporas, from Exile to Multiculturalism
Elsewhere . . . Differently
Exile According to the Bible and Rabbinical Literature
The Lost Tribes of Israel: A Modern and Postmodern Myth
The Diaspora as a Multicultural Paradigm
Part II. The Islamic Near East
From Babylon to Iraq
Syria, Between the Land of Israel and Diaspora
In the Kingdom of Sheba: The Yemeni Jews
The Ethnography of the Yemenite Jews
From Cyrus to Khomeini: The Jews of Iran
Being Jewish in Turkey: A Three-Pronged Identity Strategy
Jews, Muslims, Both, or Neither? The Salonican Dönme
Part III. The Muslim Caucasus and Central Asia
At the Heart of the Caucasus: The Mountain Jews
The Jews of Azerbaijan: Between “Soviet Cosmopolitanismâ€- and (Bi)Nationalism
Along the Silk Road: Tashkent and Bukhara
The Jews of Afghanistan
The Ancient Hebrew Origins of the Pashtuns of Afghanistan
Part IV. The Russian Orient
The Cantonists’ Descendants: Ashkenazi Jewish Communities of Central Asia
The Karaites in Crimea
Between Christianity and Judaism: The Subbotniks
The Birobidjan Project: A History of Jewish Autonomy in the Russian Far East
The Thirteenth Tribe: The Imaginary Legacy of the Khazars
Part V. Latin America and the Caribbean
The Jews of Latin America and the Caribbean
The Jews of Suriname and Brazil
The Jews of the Caribbean
The Jews of Mexico
Argentina: The Other Promised Land
Jewish Life on the Pacific: The Jews of Peru
The Legacy of Marranism
Part VI. India
The Jews of India
The Bene Israel
The Departure of the Jews of Cochin to Israel: How They Remember versus How They Are Remembered
The “Baghdadiâ€- Jews of India, Burma, and Malaya
The Bene Menashe
The Bene Ephraim
Part VII. Sub-Saharan Africa
Jewish Communities in Africa in the Twentieth Century
Ethiopian Jews: From Beta Israel to Ethiopian Israelis
The Abayudaya of Uganda
The Lemba of Southern Africa
The Igbo of Nigeria
The House of Israel in Ghana
The Jews of Cape Verde
The Jews of Madagascar
“New Jewsâ€- in Cameroon and Kenya
Part VIII. China
The Jews of China
The Sino-Judaism of Kaifeng
The Jewish Communities of Harbin and Tianjin
Jews in Shanghai
Jewish Life in Hong Kong
Part IX. Moving Identities
Jews on the Move: Images of Cosmopolitan Jews versus Jewish Nomads
Philo-Semitism from Christian Millenarianism to Contemporary Judaizing Movements
Paradigms of “Sephardic and Orientalâ€- Jews: Migration, Social Change, and Identification
Genetics, Community, and Identity
Jewishness as an Evolving Paradigm: The Case of the Bene Menashe
