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Ethiopian Jew

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Ethiopian Jew
n.
A member of a people of uncertain origin, living since ancient times in what is now central Ethiopia and practicing a form of Judaism. During the period 1984-1991 most Ethiopian Jews were resettled in Israel.
Ethiopian Jewry n.


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In Operations Moses and Solomon in 1984 and 1991, over thirty thousand Ethiopian Jews were airlifted from their East African land of birth to Israel.
Hip hoppers and black panthers in the Holy Land by Aidi, Hisham / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
References to Jewish history extend right through the twentieth century to include Nazi persecution and the clandestine airlifts of Ethiopian Jews to Israel just a few years ago.
Why on This Night?: A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration by L.A. / The Horn Book Magazine
In the 1970s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews took this route, walking for weeks with their families, carrying a few meager belongings, to a refugee camp not far from Khartoum, where they waited for clandestine transportation to Israel.
JEWS LEAVE CUBA FOR `MIRACLE' IN THE DESERT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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