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Falasha

Member of a small community of black Jews originating in Ethiopia. They suffered discrimination there and, after being accorded Jewish status by Israel in 1975, began a gradual process of resettlement in Israel. By the early 1980s only about 30,000 Falashim remained in Ethiopia, and the final emigration to Israel took place during the collapse of the Mengistu regime in 1991.

The Falashim refer to themselves as Beta Israel (‘House of Israel’).



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Falasha figurines are now so well known that it comes as a surprise to discover that this form of representational art began to be produced only in the late 1940s (see Pankhurst 1964, Rauschenbauch and Hammerschmidt 1966, Schoenberger 1975).
Ethiopian figurines from Mugar monastery in Shawa by Pankhurst, Richard / African Arts
Other Ethiopians call the Beta Israel Falashas, strangers, although they buy tools made by Menelik's father, a blacksmith.
Why I Left My Village by Salvadore, Maria B. / The Horn Book Magazine
This migration took the Bena Kongo to Egypt in 4000, then had them migrating, after the reign of Pharaoh Akhnaten, back to Ethiopia in time to be present when Makeda married Solomon to form the Falasha in Ethiopia.
Origin traditions and history in Central Africa by Thornton, John K. / African Arts
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