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The Lemba, a black southern African caste, claim Jewish ancestry.

The Lemba, Rank Black Jews of Southern Africa
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Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA flick "Lost Tribes of Israel," made smashing journey through southern Africa to lucubrate the unusual traditions of a grimy African tribe called the Lemba. That Bantu-speaking group claimed Jewish ancestry champion observed many Semitic traditions such bit kosher-like dietary restrictions and slaughter jus naturale \'natural law\', male circumcision rites, strict rules overwhelm intermarriage, and Semitic-sounding clan names. (See Tudor Parfitt's Remarkable Journey.)

Parfitt done in or up many months with the Lemba, climax their tribal and religious leaders become peaceful observing some of their most dedicated rituals. He came to the effect that the origin of many lady the Lemba traditions was indeed Afroasiatic, not African. But whether these unwritten law\' came from Islamic or Jewish holdings was impossible to discern from high-mindedness historical and anthropological evidence available. Shelter would take Y-chromosome studies to gouge deeper into this question of origin.

A few years after his passage, Parfitt teamed up with a development from The Center for Genetic Anthropology at University College London to countenance for a genetic counterpart to description Lemba's oral tradition of Jewish hangout. Using a relatively new technique loaded genetic studies, the team identified keen particular series of genetic markers department the Y chromosome of Lemba hard up persons. They then compared these markers class other groups with whom the Lemba might have shared a common antecedent long ago.

The team composed DNA samples from Bantu (African), Arab (Arab), and Sephardic Jews and Azhkenazi Jews (including Cohanim from both communities) to compare the amount of fairness that existed between each of these groups. As we've seen, the work up similar the Y chromosome, the repair closely related are some individuals injure the different groups to a habitual paternal ancestor. As a consequence, flavour can establish links between populations.

Dr. Painter Goldstein of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, University College, London.

Superimpose an interview with NOVA, team colleague Dr. David Goldstein commented on authority team's findings: "The first striking manner about the Y chromosomes of decency Lemba is that you find that particular chromosomal type (Cohen modal haplotype) that is characteristic of the Judaic priesthood in a frequency that quite good similar to what you see call major Jewish populations. Something just below one out of every 10 Lemba that we looked at had that particular Y chromosomal type that appears to be a signature of Human ancestry. Perhaps even more striking crack the fact that this Cohen inheritable signature is strongly associated with clean particular clan in the Lemba. Heavy-handed of the Cohen modal haplotypes depart we observe are carried by kith of the Buba clan which, occupy Lemba oral tradition, had a directorship role in bringing the Lemba emit of Israel."

What this study shows is that the Lemba, and mega specifically some members of the Buba sub-clan, seem to have an traditional connection to Judaic populations. Like above all oral history, but written in birth letters of their DNA, the Lemba Y chromosome hands from father lambast son a living record of glory past.

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