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January 26, 2007 Black Jews on PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, the fine PBS show that airs locally on KERA-TV at the unholy hour of 6 a.m. on Saturdays, is planning a segment this week on African-American Jews.

Here's a preview, from PBS:

Over the past several decades, the Jewish community within the U.S. has grown in numbers and diversity. Today, at least 20 percent of the Jewish population is comprised of people of color, including several thousand African- Americans Jews who believe their ancestors were originally Jewish and have converted from Christianity to Judaism in an effort to rediscover their heritage.

Menachem Daum talks with African-Americans about the reasons for their conversion to Judaism and the difficulties they face as they endeavor to raise to raise awareness of the racial and ethnic diversity of America's Jewish community.

http://religion.beloblog.com/archives/judaism/

http://www.jewishresearch.org/BL_archives/9_06BL.htm

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fromswastikatojimcrow/relations_2.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_199706/ai_n8767353/pg_8 http://www.jstor.org/view/0003049x/ap030145/03a00030/2?searchUrl=http%3a//www.jstor.org/search/BasicResults%3fhp%3d25%26si%3d1%26gw%3djtx%26jtxsi%3d1%26jcpsi%3d1%26artsi%3d1%26Query%3dThe%2bBurning%2bBush%2bAND%2bthe%2bOrigin%2bof%2bJudaism%26wc%3don&frame=noframe&currentResult=0003049x%2bap030145%2b03a00030%2b0%2cFFFF01&[email protected]/01cc993316dc17115ce109a91&dpi=3&config=jstor

http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t05/kam02.htm

The principal things concerning which this rule was made were marriage and inheritance. If one marries a woman upon the condition that she should become a proselyte, the marriage is null and void, because it is on condition of something which was not yet in existence. The same is the case as regards inheritance-one cannot say to a woman: "I will leave my estate to the children you may bear." In both these cases, usury cannot be the reason.

a convert to Judaism, who had led a revolt of Jews and Arabs against the rule of

http://books.google.com/books?id=RhzAkvei_U8C&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=a+convert+to+judaism+who+had+led+a+revolt+of+jews+and+arabs+against+the+rule+of&source=web&ots=roAuILrqis&sig=a_zMoZgs28J0wUzXJgw3QAaHxDU

Alexander Voznitzin

http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?letter=s

http://books.google.com/books?id=Mjrni72sM-gC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=alexander+voznitzin&source=web&ots=ybk0VhbypB&sig=MutaLkSqMoG_4GctNWl646lzgno#PPA13,M1

http://www.bethimmanuel.org/articles/litany.pdf

Salo Baron cites demographic figures and argues that in 586 B.C.E. there were no more than 150,000 Jews, but that by the first century of the common era the Jewish population had grown to eight million. Louis Feldman observes that "The most likely explanation of this increase is proselytism..."

http://www.convert.org/book2.htm

Norman Golb estimates that about 15,000 people converted to Judaism and fled Europe between 1000 and 1200.