单词 | black jew |
释义 | > as lemmasblack Jew black Jew n. a Jewish person who is dark-skinned or black, esp. (in Asia and Africa) as distinguished from one of European or Levantine ancestry; (also) = Falasha n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > black black Jew1807 1807 C. Buchanan Jrnl. 4 Feb. in Christian Res. in Asia (1811) 192 The resident Jews are divided into two classes, called the Jerusalem or White Jews; and the Ancient or Black Jews. The White Jews reside at this place [sc. Cochin]. The Black Jews have also a Synagogue here; but the great body of that tribe inhabit towns in the interior of the province. 1843 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras xviii. 178 I told him about the first preachers, the Black Jews, the Syrian Christians, &c. 1892 G. M. Rae Syrian Church in India x. 150 These black Jews are converts to the faith from among the people of the land. 1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 155 The black Jews..surrounded by all those millions of Hindoos. 1964 Guardian 26 Mar. 16/4 The Falasha, the so-called Black Jews of Ethiopia. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Dec. 53/3 The Malabari Jews who were known to the British as Black Jews; the Pardesi (foreign) or White Jews..and the Brown Jews, descendants of manumitted slaves who had been converted to Judaism. 2006 Canad. Jewish News (Nexis) 13 July 1 Operation Moses (1984-85) and Operation Solomon (1991) brought to Israel the Beta Israel, the black Jews of Ethiopia known pejoratively by their neighbours as Falashas (strangers or outsiders). < as lemmas |
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