Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness

Zusammenfassung

While conversions to Judaism are generally understudied in France, conversions of Black persons go unnoticed. The past three decades witnessed an increasing number of claims to Jewishness in Africa and conversions in the African diaspora and Israel. Their diverse life stories reflect deep spiritual quests. Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France describes the multiple ways in which they practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and reconstruct their identities. Whether former Christians or native Jews, they (re)define their racial and ethnic identities as members of two minority groups in their interactions with Jewish texts and communities, to find their place in the French Jewry and the broader French society, where they have to face both anti-Semitism and racism. After fifteen years of fieldwork, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot offers an original analysis of their individual and collective itineraries.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr

2024

ISBN-Print

978-1-9787-1656-8

ISBN-Online

978-1-9787-1657-5

Verlag

Lexington, Lanham

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

270

Produkttyp

Monographie