TLT Episode 15: The Modern Ten Lost Tribes - Ethiopian Jews, The Lemba Tribe, and Black Jews of A...

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interesting books so with that enjoy the episode hi everyone welcome to another edition of this Farm chatter podcast and another episode in the ongoing series here in sparm cheddar the 10 lost tribes in uh in Jewish Consciousness this episode of the series and on of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Professor tutor parfit who is distinguished University professor at Florida International University in the department of religious studies and he is also the president Isaac naan chair in sparik and mrai studies so thank you Professor parfit for joining me I'm very Professor parfit for joining me I'm very happy to be with you so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background well I was born and brought up in the in the United Kingdom as you can probably tell from my accent I'm actually Welsh and um I come from a very sort of philosemitic family um you know they were nonconformists and they always had a very very T tender spot for um had a very very T tender spot for um Jewish people indeed when I was a little kid um a Jewish Refugee was taken into the house in Wales and stayed there for some time and that's one of my uh earliest memories towards the end of the second world war and um you know I had a very sort of regular English um upbringing but it just so happened that when I was 19 I applied to do voluntary service over Seas which is like the British

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1. 1:32interesting books so with that enjoy the episode hi everyone welcome to another edition of this…
2. 7:15the word fasha we don't use that word anymore but that's the word he used and…
3. 13:28the lmba that's the book I mentioned the journey to the vanished City City let's talk…
4. 19:38you've got um uh for one reason or another yeah we I mean we're talking probably…
5. 25:18quite a lot of work in Papa New Guinea and so one particular tribe the goala…
6. 31:29assimilated they stopped using Jewish names Hebrew names and they became completely absorbed into the uh…
7. 37:42ideology kind of conflating blacks and Jews together and kind of you know you point out…
8. 43:25missionary who' been sent to one of the Caribbean islands to write a report on the…
9. 49:40anything about um you know their Jewish Origins and they said no no you've got you've…
10. 55:51certain time the dam at the end of the of the Wy uh cracked agriculture was…

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