INTRODUCTION

This bibliography is published by The Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry (SOSTEJE) with no outside funding and follows the last bibliography, compiled by Shalva Weil (Weil, 2004). It includes all the bibliographic references on Ethiopian Jewry since 2004 published to this day, be they scientific works, unpublished university theses, book reviews, encyclopedia entries, reports or other non-academic publications. However, there still might be references that have been missed and these can be included in the next bibliography list.

If Weil (2004) reported in the last bibliography that the pace of research on Ethiopian Jews seemed to slow down, with only 99 items, the 140 entries in the present list proves that the subject continues to flair wide interest in the academic and non-academic community. Two important books (Friedmann, 2007; Parfitt and Trevisan Semi, 2005), namely the proceedings of the last SOSTEJE conferences in Milan 1999) and Paris (2001), have enriched research on the key figures of Joseph Halevy and Jacques Faitlovitch as well as the latter's students. In addition, scholars have continued to contribute to the second volume of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (edited by Uhlig, 2005) adding to the somewhat over representation yet increasing visibility of Ethiopian Jewry in the field of Ethiopian studies. This may also , account for the growing interest of non-Jewish Ethiopian scholars on the topic, whether in history, education, or other fields. A number of articles in leading international joumals furthermore demonstrate the relevance of Ethiopian Jews for migration studies or cultural studies. New genres, such as children's books, also account for the presence of Ethiopian Jewry in mainstream culture; visual arts such as movies and documentaries are equally a new genre for the group's representation (or self-representation in the case of several filmmakers of Ethiopian origin) which ought to be included in a future list. Reports also continue to flourish, mainly funded by the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, including a bibliographical survey of the Ethiopian irnmigrants in Israel with updated material in Hebrew (Leshem and Zamir, 2004). The topics of research continue to focus on social integration, employment, education and its problems yet few studies examine successful integration or the elites of the community. women remain a popular topic, as a number of articles and a collected work demonstrate. New issues such as memory and commemoration of the Sudanese journey (with two books, one by an Israeli of Ethiopian origin) are being studied, but only one work has looked at the Falashmora group, even though they constitute the majority of new immigrants today.

Of particular interest in this steady fascination for Ethiopian Jewry is the growing number of publications by Israeli scholars, often writing in Hebrew, relocating the production of academic work in Israel and less and less abroad, as opposed to a first period (1980-2000) characterized by studies carried out mainly by foreign (i.e. non-Ethiopian, non-Israeli) researchers publishing in English, French or Italian, for example. More specifically, if most of the doctoral dissertations in the last list (2001-2004) were written in English by foreign students, today there are mainly writing dissertations in Hebrew at Israeli universities (curiously enough, most are women!) In particular, the two first doctoral dissertations obtained by members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel (who also happen to be women!) show their achievements in academia, not only in Israel, since one Ph.D. was awarded by a European institution and the other student is pursuing post-doctoral research in the United States. Thus, a new generation of Israeli scholars of Ethiopian origin reflects the community's increasing interest in its own past in Ethiopia and future in Israel, with several more doctoral students on the way, as is also attested by their wide participation in this Florence conference. We are impatiently awaiting their studies as pioneer "indigenous scholars"!

Dr. Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Scientific Coordinator, SOSTEJE
(anteby@mmsh.univ-aix.fr)