期刊名称：Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
电子版ISSN：2075-5287
出版年度：2004
卷号：14
页码：149-152
出版社：Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem (CRFJ)
摘要：To mark the centennial, day for day, of Jacques Faitlovitch’s first trip to discover the Falashas1 (Jews of Ethiopia) the Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem in collaboration with Ben-Zvi Institute and Tel-Aviv University (Department of Middle Eastern and African History) organized a conference titled Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethiopia: a century. In fact, it is a young masters’ student from Tel-Aviv University, Haïm Admor, who took the initative to plan this colloquium. More than three years ago, Haïm Admor endeavored to inventoriate and catalog the precious documents of the Jacques Faitlovitch collection housed at the Sourasky central library of Tel-Aviv University. Well before him, world-renowned ethiopianists, such as Stefan Strelcyn and Max Wurmbrand, had already looked at these documents brought back from the numerous trips Faitlovitch had made to Ethiopia, but none of them had left us a complete catalogue. Since 1969, an Israeli researcher, Itzhak Grinfeld, who knew Amharic, Geez, French, Hebrew and Polish, among other languages, was asked to catalog the documents; however, neither did he complete this task. Beyond the importance of this collection for Ethiopian studies, it is to Faitlovitch’s person, one of the most important figures in Ethiopian Jews’s history, that this conference is dedicated to.
