The Thirteenth Gate: Travels Among the Lost Tribes of Israel - Hardcover

Parfitt, Tudor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0917561430 ISBN 13: 9780917561436

Publisher: Adler & Adler Pub, 1987

Synopsis

Tells of the author's journey to seek out the Diaspora, the peoples who claim to be descended from Abraham

About this title

From Library Journal:

Parfitt, author of Operation Moses ( LJ 10/15/85), here writes a combined travel book and history of Jewish communities in Asia and Africa. With "the lost tribes of Israel" as theme, he explores such groups as the Makuya and the Beit Shalom in Japan, the Lemba in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and the Falashas in Ethiopia; analyzes the ethnic differences between the Baghdadi Jews and the Bene Israel of Bombay; and lays bare the conditions of the Jewish communities of Syria and Singapore. Some material, especially that about the Lemba and Japanese Judaic-like groups, is not easily accessible elsewhere. For large Judaic and religious collections. Maurice S. Tuchman, Hebrew Coll. Lib., Brookline, Mass.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Adler & Adler Pub
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0917561430
• ISBN 13: 9780917561436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 167