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From: "Pat Dugan" <>
Subject: RE: [Melungeon] Judaism/Africa
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:44:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: <002501c1e220$8a3a6c40$fac8a818@cox.rr.com>


OK. I think those are the Lemba of South Africa. The other group I've
heard of are the Abayudaya of Uganda. They're converts. Officially
converted within the last year I believe.



Pat Dugan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Maggard [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Judaism/Africa

From: "Pat Dugan" <>


> The Jews from Ethiopia. They were airlifted out 10-20 yrs ago (Operation
> Solomon, I believe). They're living in Israel.

There were several operations and the bulk of the Ethiopian Jews had been
removed by the early 90's but some continued to trickle out until 1999.

I need to point out that the Ethiopian Jews are different from the black
Jews Judy has been talking about. The Ethiopian Jews were long known; the
group Judy is talking about was only discovered in the 20th century and only
fairly recently confirmed by DNA testing for the Cohenic gene, although I
must add that they always knew who they were.

Dennis


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