From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews by Daniel Summerfield

Author:Daniel Summerfield [Summerfield, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Jewish, Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781351566346
Google: uh03DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-25T01:31:03+00:00

The Impact of the Jewish Agency’s Programme in Ethiopia

According to a variety of documental and oral sources, the Jewish Agency’s programme in Ethiopia, although short-lived, had a significant long-term impact on the Falashas. As I will illustrate, the programme ignited a response and initiated processes and changes in their society that continued until the Falashas’ immigration to Israel and which, to some extent, are still occurring today. Although the standard of education in the Agency’s schools was reported to be “of the lowest standard”216 it began a chain reaction which was to culminate in a transformation of the majority of Falasha society.217

As we have seen, the students of the Jewish Agency’s schools had lessons on a variety of Jewish practices and customs. According to the first emissaries of the Jewish Agency, the following achievements were made during the course of their religious education:-

After five months the pupils were able to speak Hebrew at the same level as a new immigrant to Israel.

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