FAITLOVITCH, JACQUES. Notes d'un Voyage chez les Falachas (Juifs d'Abyssinie) [“Notes of a Voyage to the Falashas”]. Report presented to Baron Rothschild.

(ethiopia)

Paris

1905

FIRST EDITION. French interspersed with Amharic and Hebrew.

Jacques Faitlovitch (1881-1955), an observant Jew born in Lodz, Poland, is credited with bringing the existence of the “Beta Israel” of Ethiopia to the awareness of world Jewry. Though many times stymied in his efforts on their behalf, Faitlovitch was nevertheless able to establish a school in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to educate young Jews.