The story of Ethiopian immigration to Israel has been told many times, but often from the perspective of the non-Ethiopian onlooker, presented as a story of the “rescue” of African Jews and how they have been open (or resistant) to change after two generations in Israel.
This conference takes a different approach: we will bring Ethiopian scholars, activists and artists into the center of the picture. Understanding this encounter as malleable and contingent, we will examine not just how Israel affected Ethiopian Jews, but how these immigrants changed Israeli society as well.
