King Eri, like many, claims that the Igbo are the Jews of West Africa. They believe they are descendants of at least one of Israel’s lost tribes. In the eighth century B.C. the Assyrians invaded ...

Africa is positively peppered with peoples ... Watch a documentary on the Lost Tribes of Israel: Keep Jewish Stories in Focus. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

Some claim to be descendants of the Bible’s 10 Lost Tribes. Others believe that ... Gavron has long split her time among France, Africa and Israel. Although a Senegal citizen who makes her ...

Menasseh ben Israel, a Dutch Jewish scholar widely ... Rumor was rampant that an army comprised of the lost tribes was marching up through Africa in the direction of Mecca. The Turkish authorities ...

The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel have fascinated historians, theologians, and explorers for centuries. After the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, these tribes were said ...

Other Christians saw in the Native tribes not lost Israelites but to-be-defeated Canaanites, from whom the Children of Israel had conquered the Promised Land. In a representative example ...

Khiangte and Haokip are among about 5,000 people living in the Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram who believe they are the descendants of the Manasseh, one of the biblical lost tribes of Israel ...

Proponents of the theory that the Celts are descended from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, the tribe of Dan, in historical essays and elsewhere point to various parallels between Irish and ...

An Indian-Jewish soldier who belonged to one of the “lost tribes” of Israel has been killed fighting in northern Gaza. Staff ...