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30. Americans No Jewes
Throughout history, there have been various attempts to identify specific groups of people with the lost tribes of Israel—that is, those Israelites who were taken away after the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel as recounted in the Hebrew Scriptures. One example of this was the attempt to identify the Native Americans in North America as being of Jewish descent—this became a popular idea of the early Spanish colonizers in particular. In 1650, Thomas Thorowgood, a Puritan minister, wrote a book entitled Jews in America, or Probabilities that those Indians are Judaical. The volume pictured here was a response by Hamon L’Estrange, published in London in 1652, with the title Americans no Jewes, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that race.
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30. Americans No Jewes,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
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https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/554