The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries which they have made their homes, since their expulsion from the land which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of Asia in the last eighteen and a half centuries.

The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries which they have made their homes, since their expulsion from the land which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of Asia in the last eighteen and a half centuries.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II Abyssinia]And, Ethiopia The Advent of the Jews?Maqueda, Queen of Sheba?The IFirst Menelik?The Gideons and Judiths of Samen?The Conquest of Abyssinia by Judith?The Fall of the Kingdom of Samen. NO part of the long and chequered career of the Jewish nation is more shrouded in mystery, and more romantic in legend, than the story of the advent and establishment of the Israelites in the mystic land known in mediaeval times as the territory of Prester John. It is a difficult task to compile from legend, tradition, and such scanty documents as exist the conjectured history of the Falashas, those dark-visaged Hebrews, whose ancestors were distributed throughout the great and distant regions which were nominally or actually under the authority of the rulers of Abyssinia and Ethiopia. As far, however, as can be surmised from such sources as are available, an independent Jewish Kingdom long existed within the confines of what was known as the Ethiopian Empire. Its territory?which varied in extent from time to time?was considerably greaterthan that embraced by the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel, and its existence, in all probability, was of a longer duration. The great mystery, which shrouded the greater part of Africa down to times still but little distant, would account for the fact that so little was known of this Jewish Kingdom, if, indeed, a kingdom actually existed, and, as a matter of fact, very little that is absolutely authentic, is known about it to-day even by those few people who have made a very close study of the history of the ancient Empire of Ethiopia and of the Kingdom of Abyssinia. A well-known authority states,1 that " there were always Jews in Ethiopia from the beginning," and this statement may be conjecturally justified by the proximity o...