Tudor Parfitt (born 10 October 1944)[1] is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, traveller and adventurer.[2] He specialises in the study of Jewish communities and Judaising communities around the world, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Americas and the development of issues about the construction of race.
Parfitt is emeritus professor of modern Jewish studies in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where he was the founding director of the Centre for Jewish Studies. He is now senior associate fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is corresponding senior fellow of the Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen, Belgium and is on the board as chair of the academic advisory committee of the Paris-based Projet Aladin and is on the Committee of Experts of the New York-based Global Hope Coalition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom. He was appointed distinguished professor at Florida International University in 2012 and distinguished university professor in 2018. He is alumni fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard College. In 2011 he gave the Nathan Huggins Lectures at Harvard College, which were published by Harvard University Press.
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TudorParfitt (born 10 October 1944) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, traveller and adventurer. He specialises in the study of Jewish communities...
time we moved southwards to the Transvaal; but we are not the Banyai. TudorParfitt interprets that the legend about the destruction of the boat and the...
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for Jerusalem Among the Beta Israel of Ethiopia", in Edith Bruder and TudorParfitt (eds.) African Zion: Studies in Black Judaism, Cambridge: Cambridge...
century was due to the confluence of several factors. According to TudorParfitt: As Michael Pollack shows, Menasseh's argument was based on "three separate...
their spiritual home. On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, TudorParfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research...
African Religious Studies scholar David Chidester in 1996. In 2002, TudorParfitt, a British historian, argued that the production of Judaic communities...
Press. ISBN 0-933121-40-7. Bruder, Edith; Parfitt, Tudor (2012). "Introduction". In Edith Bruder; TudorParfitt (eds.). African Zion: Studies in Black Judaism...
Series) 125–148; Parfitt, Tudor (2013) Black Jews in Africa and the Americas, Harvard University Press pp.44-6,177-118 Parfitt, Tudor Black Jews in Africa...
Semino; Luisa Pereira; David Comas; David Gurwitz; Batsheva Bonne-Tamir; TudorParfitt; Michael F. Hammer; Karl Skorecki; Richard Villems (July 2010). "The...
(32 km) south of Mumbai in 175 BCE. There is no evidence for this and TudorParfitt considers it mythical, saying that it is identical to an origin story...
original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014. Yulia Egorova; TudorParfitt (2013). Jews, Muslims and Mass Media: Mediating the 'Other'. SUNY Press...
Semino; Luisa Pereira; David Comas; David Gurwitz; Batsheva Bonne-Tamir; TudorParfitt; Michael F. Hammer; Karl Skorecki; Richard Villems (July 2010). "The...
Richard Pankhurst, "The Balla Ejj Community of Shawa" in Steven Kaplan, TudorParfitt & Emnuela Trevisan Semi (Editors), Between Africa and Zion: Proceedings...
Culture, and Ethnic Relations. Leiden: BRILL. p. 113. ISBN 90-04-10110-1. TudorParfitt (1996). The Road to Redemption—The Jews of the Yemen 1900–1950. Leiden:...
political affairs, although Salibi himself made no such connection. TudorParfitt wrote "It is dangerous because Salibi's ideas have all sorts of implications...
The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: studies on Ethiopian Jews By TudorParfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi. p.170 Israel social science research, Volumes...
fully dominant in Yemen, he reinstated this law. British historian TudorParfitt likened this situation to "the brutal measures that introduced the compulsory...
portions of the two Talmuds and in midrashic and haggadic literature." TudorParfitt; The Contribution of the old Yishuv to the Revival of Hebrew, Journal...
Syeds from the Indian subcontinent", by Elise M. S. Belle, Saima Shah, TudorParfitt, and Mark G. Thomas showed that "self-identified Syeds had no less genetic...
Polemics Between Christians and Jews. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 9783161464829. TudorParfitt, Yulia Egorova, 'Genetics, History and identity: The case of the Bene...
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