Talk:House of Israel (Ghana)

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I am quite surprised to read that there is plenty of evidence for the presence of Jews in Western Africa dating back to ancient times. The last historian to claim such nonsense was Maurice Delafosse in 1912. Modern Jewish historians like Nehemia Levtzion and Michel Abitbol deny such a presence - even for the Middle Ages. What is this nonsense about leading rulers of Ghana converting to Judaism? Where is this piece of "information" taken from? I do not know a single Akan ruler who confessed Judaism. And while talking about the Ghana Empire: If you feel you have to copy George Lichtblau's stuff word by word, then make at least sure what you are writing about. The Ghana Empire was located in modern Mauretania, not in present-day Ghana, and the kings of medieval Ghana were not Jews. Not a single source mentions this. If you do not believe a Christian historian, read the masterpiece by the late Nehemia Levtzion Ancient Ghana and Mali. London 1975), former professor of oriental history at the university of Tel Aviv. The Jewish tradition in the Empire of Ghana is only a phantasy cherished by KULANU-oriented amateur historians. (For medieval sources see N. Levtzion & J. Hopkins, edd., Corpus of Early Arab Sources relating to West African History. Cambridge 1981) By the way, what is this remark about Sewfi children no longer "forced to attend a Christian school"? Is there a difference between Christian and Jewish arithmetics? Yes, there is, said Adolf Hitler when being approached on behalf of Albert Einstein. He believed there was a distinctive Aryan science in opposition to Jewish science. Maybe he would have subscribed to such a distinction as implied by your statement. But would you, really??? The two Jewish youths (from Ukraine) in my 12th class at least do not feel they have been forced into an alien and hostile educational system. Peter Kremer 16:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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Shamesless advocacy and pandering on these 'lost tribes' related pages

Since there is a documentary being made about this group, I suppose they are notable, but the Wikipedia article even tried to spin the article o the film maker as well as misconstrue her statements.

If there is to be a Wikipedia article on this topic, it is going to reflect what the RS on it say.

That said, since the documentary itself has a promotional bent--trying to promote a descent from the Lost Tribes, apparently--whether it is notable at all may still be at issue.

Its oral history stretches back more than 200 years, and some historians, said Zilkha, believe its residents could be descendants of the Lost Tribes who migrated from North Africa to West Africa and then south.

"At the end of the day," she said, "there's little proof, but you have to take a point of view, and that's the point of view I've chosen to take in the film."

--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 09:56, 10:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Broken links

Apart from the author's surname probably being Kapustin, not Kasputin , the link to "Ghana's House of Israel, descendents of lost tribes?" leads to Not Found. Changing descendents to descendants doesn't make a difference. Mcljlm (talk) 13:43, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

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