His book on this adventure is interesting, although written in a stiff Victorian style. A whole set of writings accompanied the missionaries who arrived in Ethiopia at the invitation of Emperor ...

Unlike many other Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted to Israel in 1991, they didn’t say goodbye to any relatives. They also left behind a centuries-old Book of Psalms written in Ge’ez ...

Unlike many other Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted to Israel in 1991, they didn’t say goodbye to any relatives. But they left behind a centuries-old book of psalms written in Ge’ez ...

THE story of this Ethiopian classic almost threatens to overshadow the novel itself – but thankfully not quite. First published in 1983, it was almost immediately banned (although it lived on ...

Now, Barhany’s first book, “Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond,” reflects the breadth of her journey. Its title, “Gursha,” is Amharic ...

His earlier books — “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,” “How to Read the Air” and “All Our Names” — explored the psychic tolls on Ethiopian immigrants of being adrift in an ...