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Yearning for the Long Lost Home: The Lemba and the Jewish Narrative of Genetic Return
Author(s) -
Zoloth Laurie
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
developing world bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1471-8847
pISSN - 1471-8731
DOI - 10.1046/j.1471-8731.2003.00068.x
Subject(s) - judaism , narrative , genealogy , identity (music) , jewish identity , sociology , genetics , gender studies , history , biology , literature , art , aesthetics , archaeology
This commentary examines the relationship between genetics and Jewish identity. It focuses especially on the use of Y‐chromosome testing to map the genealogies of the Lemba in southern Africa.