NACOEJ Selected Resource List: Operation Solomon
Children’s Books
Elementary School
Day of Delight: a Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia. Maxine Rose Schur. (1994). Dial Books for Young Readers: New York.
Falasha No More: An Ethiopian Jewish Child Comes Home Arlene Kushner. (1986). Steimatzky/Shapolsky Books: New York.
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Blu Greenberg and Linda Tarry. (1997). Jerusalem: Pitspopany Press.
My Name Is Rachamim. Jonathan P. Kendall. (1987). URJ Press: New York.
On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Boy’s Story. Jeffrey Schrier. (1998). CT: Millbrook Press.
Stork, Stork, How is Our Land?: Works by Newly Arrived Ethiopian Children, 1991. The Ruth Youth Wing. (1991). Jerusalem: The Israel Museum.
The Storyteller’s Beads. Jane Kurtz. (1998).Gulliver Books: San Diego.
When I Left my Village. Maxine Rose Schur. (1996). Dial Books for Young Readers: New York.
Middle School
The Return. Sonia Levitin. (1988). Fawcett Juniper Pub./Atheneum: New York.
Ethiopian- Jewish History
Ethiopian Jews and Israel. Michael Ashkenazi and Alex Weingrod. (1987). Transactions Publishing: New Brunswick, NJ.
From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics Behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry. Bard, M. (2002). Praeger Pubs: Westport.
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For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Wagaw Teshome. (1993). Wayne State University Press: Detroit, MI.
Operation Exodus: the Inside Story of American Jews in the Greatest Rescues of Our Time. Gerald S. Nagel. (2006). New York: Contemporary History Press.
Operation Solomon: the Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews. Stephen Spector. (2005). Oxford University Press: New York.
The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Personal Stories of Life in the Promised Land. Lyons, Leonard. (2007). Jewish Lights Pub.Woodstock,VT.
Multi-media
Again… the Second Time. (19 min.). Ergo Media Inc. DVD can be ordered from Ergo Media, Inc.www.jewishvideo.com.
The Jews of Ethiopia. (3-4 min.). BlueStarPR. Available on NACOEJ website. DVD can be ordered from BlueStarPR. www.bluestarpr.com.
Free Operation Solomon poster available from NACOEJ website.
Photo Page available on NACOEJ website.
El Al Video. Available on NACOEJ website.
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Available from http://www.nytimes.com/ (search using “Operation Solomon, Israel, Ethiopia”, free)
Brinkley, J. (1991, May 26). Ethiopian Jews and Israelis Exult as Airlift is Completed. The New York Times.
Krauss, C. (1991, May 25). Bush Appeals to Addis Ababa Clears the Way. The New York Times.
Available from http://www.jpost.com/ (search using “Operation Solomon, Israel, Ethiopia”, free abstracts, $3.95 per article)
O’Sullivan, Arieh. (Feb 22, 2000). Immigrants Serve in Unit That Airlifted Them Here. The Jerusalem Post.
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Schrag, C. (Jun 7, 1991). The Not-so-Newcomers. The Jerusalem Post.
Louis Rapoport, Special Correspondent. (May 26, 1991). Ethiopian Jewry Rescued, 14,400 are Flown Here in a 24-hour Airlift. The Jerusalem Post.
May 26, 1991. Zionist Fulfillment. The Jerusalem Post.
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