Description
Book SynopsisDistilling more than ten years of ethnographic research, Don Seeman depicts the rich culture of the group, as well as their social and cultural vulnerability, and addresses the problems that arise when immigration officials, religious leaders, or academic scholars try to determine the legitimacy of Jewish identity or Jewish religious experience.
Trade Review"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." -- Ruth Behar * author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba *
"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." * Jewish Book World *
"Seeman has done an outstanding job."
* Shofar *
"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." -- Ruth Behar * author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba *
"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." * Jewish Book World *
"Seeman has done an outstanding job."
* Shofar *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
A Death in Addis Ababa
The Question of Kinship
Purity of Heart
Returning to Judaism
Absorption
Blood and Terror
The 'Feres Mura' Dilemma
Notes
References
Index
