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

Avichail approached the committee chair with evidence that he had “found the lost tribe of Menasseh in India.” Like countless se ...

Shomron (Returnees to Samaria), not far from ancient Samaria, the original capital of the ten tribes—where it all began. A well- ...

I believe that years after the war, when all the secrets of the [death] camps will be revealed, miserable mothers will still be ...

Notes INTRODUCTION Shahan,El ‘Ever ha-Sambatyon, 11. Romanian and German armies murdered about 185 , 000 deported Ukrainian and ...

For a good survey in English of some of these groups, see Gonen,Ends of the Earth. Koishi,Nihonjin;and particularly Matsumoto a ...

Bloch,The Past Keeps Changing, 32. 41 .History of Johnson County, Iowa, 275. Anxiety andnotmemory. Yet the theological signific ...

I am relying heavily here on Andre ́Neher’s approach to this specific idea of Maharal’s concerning new worlds, although Neher t ...

Younger, “Deportations of the Israelites,” 219 ; see also his n. 73. On this point, there is a consensus. However, while schola ...

and events (such as the fall of Sidon in 701 , lamented in Isaiah 23 ) strongly resonate in the oracles. 49. See Bredin,Studies ...

their deportation was written and processed during the later period of the Second Temple. While I agree with her line of argumen ...

Robinson, “Introduction,” 86. See also VanderKam and Adler,Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage, 83 – 84. This may explain why the word ...

Commodianus,Commodiani Carmina, 176. Commodianus is referring here to Esdras 13 : 40. On Commodianus and Esdras, see Bergren, “ ...

“Shabtai,” and that of the planet Saturn (in Hebrew also Shabtai, “the Sabbath Planet”). Drawing on medieval traditions connecti ...

Rabinowitz, “Eldad ha-Dani.” “Assin” is how the Arabic place name al-Sin is pronounced. For Islamic/Arabic and Chinese connecti ...

On the book itself, see Khoury, “Geschichte oder Fiktion.” This book itself draws on many earlier traditions, many of them bibl ...

Gow,The Red Jews, 33 ff. I cannot do enough justice to the way in which Gow discusses at length the various sources for the tal ...

Idel,Mystical Experience, 2. For one account of the battle, see Smith, “Ayn Jalut.” For updated research, see Amitai-Preiss,Mam ...

Elias Lipiner, an expert on the Portuguese Inquisition, has brilliantly uncovered that, having been arrested while on a mission ...

Adler,Jewish Travellers, 246 – 247 , with my emendments based on the original in Bertinoro,Me-Italyah li-Yerushalayim, 86. Neub ...

Alvares,Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy, 178. Ibid., 304 – 307. Ibid., 104. Ibid., 350. Beckingham, “Some Early Travels in ...