The Ten Lost Tribes. A World History - Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

leaving for India. The lady said, “yours is the Quixotism of religion, and I almost believe you are going in search of the ten l ...

The Lost Tribes as a Modern Geographic Mystery From the seventeenth century, it became clear that a major trouble with the ten t ...

legendary river—something he called a “Jewish tragedy.” The learned geogra- pher ridiculed the lack of geographic knowledge disp ...

most learned “Concerning the Disposal of the Ten Tribes of the Jews, which were Carried into Captivity to Nineveh: Commonly Call ...

early modern period, the sources of knowledge changed dramatically, to almost exclusively Christian. These sources are newer—muc ...

own land.... I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they b ...

So he takes a different tack, reminding his readers that even within the finite and fully exposed world, there could yet be plac ...

Teach; c. 1680 – 1718 ) included a character “whose thoughts were wholly devoted to that abstruse and perplexing search after th ...

MR. BENNETT Will you find them? MR. STANLEY I will, sir. MR. BENNETT Start immediately; draw on me as large a sum as you like, a ...

became again the domain of Jews. Seven centuries after Benjamin of Tudela undertook to find the tribes in Asia, a Jew who conver ...

was evidently a self-absorbed man, a proud “religious fanatic,” and a romantic. HisTravels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wol ...

In 1837 , the Reverend Jacob Samuel set out from Tehran to the Caucasus, looking to see if the ten tribes were still in their ol ...

Jewish sources had depicted a violent appearance of the ten tribes as the first step in the redemptive process that would usher ...

China occupied a special place in these quests. The Alsatian rabbi Abra- ham Stempel had also been there and claimed to have fou ...

he had sent to his relations, which was published in 1906 with Stempel’s original account. The jacket copy read: In this book on ...

restitution and for the end of exile. Haga’s endeavor foreshadowed the coming of a new Jewish quest for the ten tribes, one that ...

The arrival in Ethiopia of this “Jewish missionary,” as some disturbed rival Protestant missionaries called him, started a long ...

tribes into the picture as well? Faitlovitch, Kasdoi, and Ben-Zvi might be seen simply as just another phase in the ongoing sear ...

lost tribes that provided notices on them from traditional sources as well as “wonderful news on the Jews of China.”^70 Another ...

government in 1917 , raised the possibility of a return of the tribes not simply to the Jewish people, but specifically to a Jew ...