How can someone in our day and age be Jewish yet Iranian, or Jewish yet Indian and born into a family of untouchables?

Not all Jews are Ashkenazi or Sephardic! Dozens of little-known communities are scattered all over sub-Saharan Africa, the Caucasus, India, China, the Amazon rainforest, and the Caribbean, dating back to earliest Antiquity or sometimes just a few decades. Each one tells us something about the history of all the others. And new communities are born almost yearly! How can someone today be Jewish and Iranian, or Jewish and Indian? How did Madagascar come to have four "native" Jewish communities? How does the myth of the "lost tribes" continue to shape the Jewish imagination?
Rich illustrations and a generous selection of maps enhance this astounding journey across centuries and continents.