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Semitist Circle? - The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century. By Steven Kaplan. New York and London: New York University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 336. $45 (ISBN 0-8147-4625-X).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2009
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1 Shelemay, Kay Kaufman, Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (East Lansing, 1986)Google Scholar; and Quirin, James, The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920 (Philadelphia, 1992).Google Scholar Quirin, p. 3, gives estimates of 80,000 to 250,000 for the mid-nineteenth century when the population under Ethiopian rule must have been 5,000,000 or more.
2 For the Quemant see Gamst, Frederick, The Qemant: A Pagan-Hebraic Peasantry of Ethiopia (New York, 1969).Google Scholar