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A Large Community of Black Jews Lived In Dahomey After WWI

19 Jan

A Large Community of Black Jews Lived In Dahomey After WWI

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Source: Blacks Jews The Religious Challenge (Cambridge University Press) 1987, pg. 232 "Closer to our time Dr. J. Krepel noted some time after the First World War, that a large community of Black Jews existed in the interior of Dahomey. These Jews had the five books of Moses written on old parchment in Hebrew."

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