Black Israel

  • Black Israel
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, History/society
Year of production : 2002
Format : Feature
Running time : 85 (in minutes)

This film intends to show several encounters with Africans and Black Americans who live in the Jewish community. They are Jews by birth or conversion. Others came to Israel in order to work or study.
In Dimona, in the Negev desert, 2 to 3 thousands Black Americans live under the law of their leader and Messiah Carter Ben Ami. They call themselves the Hebrew Israelites and practice Judaic customs.
In USA, thousands of Black Jews form distinct groups. Others joined traditionnal Jewish communities. These men and women affirm their identity without forgetting their African origins and culture. Each one, in their one way, expresses a Black Jewishness, which finds it own place within the diversity of Judaism.

A film by Maurice Dorès

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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