Name: Lecture: Bar Kribus - The Religious Sites of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews) [full title below]
Start: 2026-02-11T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Salah ed-Din Street 26, 9711049 Jerusalem, Israel

$Lecture: Bar Kribus - The Religious Sites of the Bet\u00e4 \u018esra\u02beel (Ethiopian Jews) [full title below]$

Join us at the Albright or on Zoom for Bar Kribus’ lecture, “The Religious Sites of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews) in the Context of the Religious Architecture of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands" on Feb 11, 2026 at 17:00 IST | 10:00 EST. Stay for the post-event reception. No registration is required.
Webinar ID: 897 1675 6412
Passcode: 494474
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89716756412?pwd=ZC4j4TIcgyypJyObuzm0CVOca2B4xd.1
Abstract: With the 20th-century Aliyah of the Betä Ǝsraʾel to Israel, almost all of their religious sites in Ethiopia were abandoned and remain undocumented. In this talk, I will examine the characteristics of Betä Ǝsraʾel religious sites in the context of religious architecture of the Ethiopian Highlands, based in part on archaeological fieldwork in which we examined the remains of Betä Ǝsraʾel religious sites in detail for the first time. I will demonstrate how the Betä Ǝsraʾel employed common architectural themes, shaping them to express their unique identity and religious observances, and how religious sites served to commemorate seminal events in Betä Ǝsraʾel history and dynamics with others.
Bio: Bar Kribus specializes in Ethiopian archaeology and history. He was a member of the ERC project JewsEast and a post-doc of the Minerva Stiftung at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and later a post-doc of the Dan David Society of Fellows and a researcher of the Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. Bar is the director of the Research Institute of the Ethiopian Jewry Heritage Center.