Falashas are black Jews, not Marranos (which itself was a pejorative term meaning "pig") who were Jewish converts to Xianity.
>From: Sylvia Schildt
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: Re: Falasha music
>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:46:53 -0500
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>If I am not mistaken, Falasha is a perjorative term parallel to Marranos.
>Isn't there a more PC name for Ethipian Jews?
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>Sylvia Schildt
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>on 12/12/02 10:13 AM, Richard Green at rmarkgreen (at) hotmail(dot)com wrote:
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>Falasha music. Does anyone know of any site that contains music of the
>Falasha?
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