Book Review| August 01 2021 Review: Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, by Noah Tamarkin Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. By Noah Tamarkin. Duke University Press, 2020. xvi + 260 pages. $99.95 cloth; $26.95 paper; ebook available. Ira Robinson Ira Robinson Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2021) 25 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.25.1.151 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ira Robinson; Review: Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, by Noah Tamarkin. Nova Religio 1 August 2021; 25 (1): 151–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.25.1.151 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentNova Religio Search The Lemba are people living mostly in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They became known in the western world because of genetic studies in the 1990s that seemed to confirm their claim that the Lemba originated in ancient Judea and migrated over many stages to southern Africa. The DNA studies noted in particular a significant presence among the Lemba of the “Cohen Modal Haplotype,” which has been considered indicative of connections with ancient Jewish populations. This finding aroused considerable interest among Jews in North America and Israel, and generated a number of books, articles, and documentaries that proclaimed the Lemba, in the words of the title of a NOVA documentary on PBS, to be a “Lost Tribe of Israel.” Noah Tamarkin’s intellectual interests encompass “the cultural anthropology of race, citizenship, and genomics with interdisciplinary commitments to Science and Technology Studies, African Studies, and Jewish Studies” (https://anthropology.cornell.edu/noah-tamarkin). The political and... You do not currently have access to this content.