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We focus on the bible and providing proof we are the Israelites of the bible.
Like this week we will review discuss the Jews of Bilad al Sudan.
Jews of the Bilad al-Sudan describes West African Jewish communities who were connected to known Jewish communities from the Middle East, North Africa, or Spain and Portugal. Various historical records attest to their presence at one time in the
Ghana,
Mali, and
Songhaiempires, then called the
Bilad as-Sudan from the Arabic meaning
Land of the Blacks
Jews from Spain, Portugal, and
Moroccoin later years also formed communities off the coast of
Senegaland on the Islands of
Cape Verde. These communities continued to exist for hundreds of years but have since disappeared due to changing social conditions, migration, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. According to most accounts, the earliest Jewish settlements in Africa were in places such as
Egypt,
Tunisia,and
Morocco. Jews had settled along the Upper
Nileat
Elephantinein Egypt.
These communities were augmented by subsequent arrivals of Jews after the destruction of the Second TempleinJerusalemin 70 CE, when 30,000 Jewish slaves were settled throughout Carthage by the Roman emperorTitus.
The Songhai Empire 1500
We will also discuss how Thomas Jefferson's ancestors knew we were the Israelites and a monument in Virginia shows it