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The amazing and obscure history of African Jews is revealed in this absorbing 1920 book compiled by wealthy African diamond merchant Sidney Mendelssohn, who collected African literature.
Since the final destruction of the Jewish kingdom by the Romans, many histories of Jews which have appeared since the time of Josephus have almost invariably represented them as one people as well as of one race and one religion.
Sidney Mendelssohn in his 1920 book "The Jews of Africa," is the first publication that has been attempted on the plan which to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different African countries in which they have made their homes, since their expulsion from the land with which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries.
In these pages Mendelssohn endeavored to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of Africa in the eighteen and a half centuries which have elapsed since Titus did his best to erase the Jews as a political race from the face of the earth.
Since the final destruction of the Jewish kingdom by the Romans, many histories of Jews which have appeared since the time of Josephus have almost invariably represented them as one people as well as of one race and one religion.
Sidney Mendelssohn in his 1920 book "The Jews of Africa," is the first publication that has been attempted on the plan which to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different African countries in which they have made their homes, since their expulsion from the land with which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries.
In these pages Mendelssohn endeavored to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of Africa in the eighteen and a half centuries which have elapsed since Titus did his best to erase the Jews as a political race from the face of the earth.