Black Jews in Africa and the Americas - Tudor Parfitt

Giordano Bruno (1548– 1600), who was burned at the stake in Rome in part for being one of the first to comprehend the infinite nature of the universe, and who was not, therefore, the least observant of men, suggested in 1591 that no one could possibly imagine that Jews and blacks have the same ancestry. According to him Jews could not be black, blacks could not be Jews. They came from different worlds...