For Release: February 7th, 2000
Israel and southern Africa are separated by 4,000 miles of desert, mountains, rain forest, savanna and open sea. Yet there are intriguing clues that centuries ago a band of Jews found their way to a remote corner of Africa and kept their traditions alive.
Nova retraces the scientific trail of evidence for this remarkable migration in "Lost Tribes of Israel," airing Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET and Saturday, Feb. 26 at 7/6 p.m. CT on KET2.
Israel's lost tribes were swallowed up by history after conquering Assyrians banished them from the Kingdom of Judah in 722 B.C.E. Since then, countless conjectures and fantastic theories have been proposed to account for their fate.
Armed with the modern research tool of genetics, anthropologist Tudor Parfitt of London University sets out to cross Africa and investigate this ancient story. After a long journey across the continent, it is on the lunar-like, desert canyons of the Wadi Hadhramaut, in a nation of devout Muslims, that he chances across what may be the final clue.
Nova "Lost Tribes of Israel" is produced by Cicada Films in association with WGBH/Boston. The program is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Viewers can find out more about programming on KET by visiting the KET Web site at http://www.ket.org, a Kentucky.com affiliate.
Contact: Todd Piccirilli
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