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Biography Information
Tudor Parfitt is Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he is the Founding Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies. He is the Honorary President of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry. He has written on the Beta Israel – the Jews of Ethiopia – and has been studying with the Lemba people since 1986. He has traveled widely in Africa and as well as writing a number of travel books has written and presented documentaries for the BBC, NOVA, Channel Four, and the History Channel.
Project Description
The project I am working on in general has to do with the relations between Black Jews and Black Muslims. This is a major undertaking which will take some time. However while I am at the Du Bois centre in the Spring Term I shall be concentrating specifically on relations between the Nation of Islam and Black Jews of different sorts in the United States.