Jews, Ethiopian

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046946
- info:lc/authorities/sh85046946
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85046946#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Beta Israel
- Ethiopian Jews
- Falashas
- Felashas
- Fenjas
- Foggara
- House of Israel
- Israel, Beta
- Israel, House of
- Kaila
Narrower Terms
- Feres Mura
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11959132z
Earlier Established Forms
- Falashas
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Wagaw, T.G. For our soul : Ethiopian Jews in Israel, c1993: p. 4 (To most outsiders, they are known as the Falasha ... in recent years, educated members of the group have rejected it, preferring to be called either Beta Israel or simply Ethiopian Jews)
- found: LC data base, 3/10/93.
- found: Am. heritage dict. (Falasha. Offensive. Used as a disparaging term for an Ethiopian Jew)
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1993-05-03: revised

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