A good place to start would be by reading Twelve Tribes, Promise and Peril in the New Israel, the new book by Ethan Michaeli. On four trips to Israel over four years, Michaeli interviewed a broad ...

90, No. 1/2 (2016), pp. 1-27 (27 pages) Twenty-eight years ago, F.J. van Dijk published in the New West Indian Guide what remained for a long time the only scholarly paper on the Twelve Tribes of ...

The ancient Israelites (as English translations of the Bible call the Yisraelim, or descendants of Jacob aka Israel), were organized into 12 tribes. Ten were named after sons of Jacob, and two ...

The imagined affinity between Jews and Native Americans is the subject of Elizabeth Fenton’s new book, “Old Canaan in a New World: Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel.” She tells the ...