Beit Avraham

Beit Avraham

Beit Avraham is the chosen name of a number of communities of northern Ethiopia, claiming Jewish heritage. The community is regarded by some as a crypto-Jewish off-shoot of the Beta Israel community. [http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=173] The size of the community is estimated to be somewhere upwards of 50,000 in number.

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* [http://www.blackjews.org/Rabbi%20Paris%20Trip%20to%20Ethiopia%202006.htm Rabbi Paris Returns to Ethiopia After 60 Years] accessed 2 January, 2007 from [http://www.blackjews.org/ blackjews.org]


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