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About The Jews Of Africa
The amazing and obscure history of African Jews is revealed in this absorbing 1920 book compiled by a rich African diamond merchant 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. [NOTICE: This 2018 reprint includes all 13 chapters of 1920 book, but omits the index and has reduced page margins so that all 13 chapters fit on 106 pages, in contrast to the original 1920 publication's 199 pages (in which page margins took up half of each page width). Lower page numbers allow the book to be sold at reduced price. A word search can be done with the Kindle version (which is free with purchase of paperback), making an index unnecessary.]In these pages Mendelssohn endeavoured 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. Much of the information contained in this volume is probably unknown to the average educated Jew, to say nothing of the average Gentile. Probably not one Jew in fifty thousand ever heard of the Jewish kings of Abyssinia or the Yemen or of many of the other romantic and perhaps somewhat legendary heroes whom Israel has mustered since the beginning of the Christian era. The ghettoes, ancient and modern, know little of the Gideons of Semen, of Dhu Nuwas of the Yemen
