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South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland
Studies that have aimed to characterise large-scale Jewish genetic diversity and to map Jewish origins haven’t included Lemba DNA among their Jewish comparative samples. I point this out because ...
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Tudor Parfitt's Remarkable Journey
A southern African tribe with tantalizing claims to an ancient Jewish heritage, the Lemba dispatched Parfitt on a journey of discovery that would take him halfway across Africa and into a remote ...