Authors site and for more information on this incredible story:
http://judieoron.com/
http://youtu.be/lAlUc2UxP0I
Link for the book @ Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Cry-Giraffe-Judie-Oron/dp/1554512727
Hardback $16.48
Paperback $10.36
Link for the book @ publisher:
http://site.annickpress.com/catalog/catalog.aspx?Title=Cry+of+the+Giraffe
- 2011 USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List
- 2011 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Teens
- White Ravens Collection, International Youth Library, Munich
- 2011 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award
- Amelia Bloomer Project 2011 List, ALA
- YALSA Hidden Gems
Cry of the Giraffe is on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cry-of-the-Giraffe/152399418116528?sk=wall
Published by Annick Press July 2010
208 pages/Non-fiction/Grades 8 and up
Slavery/Ethiopian Jew/Refugee/Abuse/War
Once again I've read a story I'd not heard of before. The true story of Jewish refugees fleeing the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple that traveled and settled in Ethiopia. These Jewish Ethiopians lived in their own communities for a long time, waiting until they could settle back in the land of their father's. They called themselves Beta Israel or House of Israel. When Israel became a statehood in 1948 they waited patiently for the ability to resettle there. In the 1980's Ethiopia became ever more hostile to them and they began fleeing to Sudan to await a hopeful flight out of Sudan and to Israel. While waiting in these refugee camps in Sudan the abuse, neglect, starvation, and disease was horrifying and rampant. Families were torn apart literally, some never seeing each other again. Others were parted for long periods of time. More than 4,000 would die.
There are120,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel now.
Cry of the Giraffe is the story of Wuditu a young girl living in a village in Ethiopia with her brother Dawid and mother. Their mother was the first wife of their father Berihun. He had a second wife and several daughters with her. Each of the wives lived with their own children in separate houses.
This family early in the book began to leave Ethiopia walking with a guide all the way to Sudan. After reaching there the
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