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been established in Shinlung
areas and younger members
of the tribe now travel to
Bombay to study at the Jew-
ish Ort school, where they
learn Hebrew and the detail
of Jewish ritual before return-
ing home to spread the word.
Ultimately, Tanruma told
the Shinlung, they were all
destined to go to the Land of
Israel.
"Will you go?" the British
scholar asked one young
Shinlung man.
"Of course," he replied.
"And my parents and thou-
sands of others. Israel is
lovely. It is the land we love
above all others."
Just as the Lemba were
galvanized by the dramatic
rescue of Jews from Ethiopia,
so the Shinlung have been
inspired by Israel's accep-
tance of the Bene Israel,
Indian Jews who believe that
their forebears fled the per-
secutions of Antiochus
Epiphanes, between 175 BCE
and 165 BCE, and were ship-
wrecked near Navagaon, 70
miles south of Bombay.
Although several thousand
Bene Israel continue to live in
and around Bombay, thou-
sands more have settled in
Israel, Britain and the United
States. The Bene Israel, un-
touchables in India's rigid
caste system since ancient
times, have traditionally
made their living from
oil-pressing.
When Parfitt visited the
last remaining Jewish oil-
presser in the village of
Alibag, once a thriving Jew-
ish town, he was shown
photographs of the old man's
children and grandchildren,
all Israelis now.
In Navagaon itself, a monu-
ment marks the spot where
the ancestors of the Bene
Israel first landed in India.
lbday, just one elderly Jewish
woman lives there, cared for
by her Hindu neighbors.
Sitting now in his com-
fortable, book-lined apart-
ment in an affluent suburb of
North London, Tudor Parfitt
ponders his next expedition
— the most ambitious and
most rigorous of all: a journey
to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The object of Parfitt's new
quest — in one of the most
hostile parts of the modern
world—is the 20-million-
strong Pathan tribe.
While the Pathans are
nominally Moslem, they con-
tinue to use names, observe
rituals and cherish tribal
memories that all point
strongly to ancient Jewish
influences.
If, indeed, authentic rem-
nants of the Lost Tribes still
exist, according to Parfitt and
other serious scholars, they
are most likely to be found
among the fierce Pathan
tribesmen.
Thousands of myths and
legends link the area with the
Lost Tribes, and in terms of
logic, history and geography,
the scholars agree that it is
the likeliest place for the
expelled Jews to have found a
refuge.
What makes Tudor Parfitt,
Professor of Hebrew and
Jewish Studies at London
University's prestigious
School of Oriental and Af-
rican Studies, so utterly
engrossed in his chosen
subject?
Clearly the story
of destruction and
the promise of
redemption speaks to
something deeply
rooted in the
human psyche.
Born into a family of
devout Welsh Baptists, he
was steeped in the Bible,
particularly the Old Testa-
ment, and although he scarce-
ly encountered a Jew
throughout his childhood, he
recalls the "almost extra-
vagant" language his parents
used when they spoke of the
"People of the Book."
In 1963, between school and
university, he decided to take
a year off. He signed up with
the British-based Volunteer
Service Overseas program
and, at the age of 19, found
himself in Jerusalem, work-
ing at a home for retarded
children and adults, many of
them victims and survivors of
the Nazi concentration
camps.
It was his first confronta-
tion — his first real contact
with Jewish history, Hebrew,
the ideology of Zionism and
the Holocaust. The effect was
electrifying.
"Jerusalem before 1967 was
very much like Oxford, only
more so," he says. "Israel was
such a lively place and the
impact on me was enormous.
It was there that I received
my liberal education. It was
there that I came into contact
with contemporary European
thought, French existential
writing, Buber."
As a result of that year in
Jerusalem, he abandoned his
plans to study general history
at Oxford, choosing instead
to specialize in Jewish and
Islamic history. Today, he is
considered an authority on
the Jews of Palestine from
1800 to 1882.
Mostly, though, he is
known for his continuing,
consuming interest in the
Lost Tribes. In this he is not
alone. After almost 3,000