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Black Judaism is Judaism that is practiced by communities of African descent, both within Africa and within the African diaspora, including North America, Europe, Israel, and elsewhere. Significant examples of Black Judaism include Judaism as it is practiced by Ethiopian Jews and African-American Jews .
Kurinsky, Samuel: Jews in Africa: Ancient Black African Relations, Fact Paper 19-II. Dierk Lange: "Origin of the Yoruba and the "Lost Tribes of Israel", Anthropos, 106, 2011, 579–595. Parfitt, Tudor (2002) The Lost Tribes of Israel: the History of a Myth. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Parfitt, Tudor (2013) Black Jews in Africa and the ...
Black Jews are people who are both Black and Jewish. Some groups which are described as Black Jews include: African-American Jews. Alliance of Black Jews, a now defunct organization; Black Hebrew Israelites, a new religious movement not associated with the mainstream Jewish community African Hebrew Israelites in Israel; Black Judaism
A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...
Jews In Africa: Ancient Black African Relations, Fact Paper 19-II, By Samuel Kurinsky; Hebrewisms of West Africa: From Nile to Niger With the Jews, The Dial Press, New York, 1931, by Joseph J. Williams; Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, New Jersey, 2006, by John Hunwick
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A widely publicized example of the Black-Jewish conflict arose in the 1978 affirmative action case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, when Black and Jewish organizations took opposing sides in the case of a white student who sued for admission, claiming that he was unfairly excluded by affirmative action programs. [119]
This is a list of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is arranged by country of origin. It is arranged by country of origin. The vast majority of African Jews inhabiting areas below the Sahara live in South Africa , and are mainly of Ashkenazi (largely Lithuanian ) origin.