Africana Jewish Journeys: Studies in African Judaism

Edith Bruder, PhD, is a Research Associate at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a Research Fellow at the UNISA-South Africa. She is the author of The Black Jews of Africa: History, Identity, Religion (2008 and 2012), Black Jews, Les Juifs noirs d’Afrique et le mythe des Tribus perdues (2014), and co-editor of African Zion, Studies in Black Judaism (with Tudor Parfitt, 2012). She has also published several articles and book chapters. She is the founder and President of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry (ISSAJ).

Magdel Le Roux is Professor in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa. Her recent publications include The Lemba: A Lost Tribe of Israel in Southern Africa? The case of the Lemba (2015) and “Sing, eat, pray: Transmission of tradition in Lemba communities in Southern Africa” in a special issue of Africa and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, “Tastes and tunes of Black Israeli(te)s” (2017). She is the Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry (ISSAJ).