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 wave of Ethiopian immigration brought Sigd — which ... Last year, PJ Library sent “Pumpkin Pie for Sigd,” a picture book about an American in Israel finding comfort during Thanksgiving ...

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 ...

In Straddling Black and White, Columbus, Ohio-born Kim Salzman traces an Ethiopian Jewish family’s complex relationship with the Land of Israel. NEW OLIM rescued from Ethiopia step out of an IAF ...

Author Kim Salzman has fictionalized Operation Moses in her new book, “Straddling Black and White,” about an Ethiopian-Jewish family that is torn apart during the mission. It tells the story ...

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 ...