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Article: The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Europe
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- Journal of American Folklore
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- July 1, 2002
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The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Europe. By Hagar Salamon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. 157, 19 illustrations, notes, references, index.) Hagar Salamon provides a fascinating study of the creation of identity through what might be appropriately called an "ethnography of memory." Salamon sets out to study the life of Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia, but her study encompasses the lives of Ethiopian Jews in Israel as well. Drawing a distinction between the two emphases of the book becomes difficult because Salamon's study of the Beta Israel, Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel between 1977 and 1991, is not rooted in the direct observation of Ethiopian Jews in ...
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