Three thousand years ago and more, on the destruction of their temple in Jerusalem, the two Jewish tribes that comprised the kingdom of Judah and the ten that constituted the kingdom of Israel to the north of Jerusalem were dispersed under the pressure of the invaders-the Assyrians and other hostile nations and empires. The dispersion of the two Judean tribes is fairy well recorded in the Bible and by historians of ancient times; but strangely, that of the ten ...
