CONTENTS: 1 A Neutral Piece of Land: The Jewish State 2 So If the King of Israel Should Come with His Men: The Lost Tribes in History and Myth 3 King Solomon Loved Many Strange Women: The Jewish Kingdom of Ethiopia 4 Though We Are Far from Zion: The Khazar Jewish Kingdom 5 And Jews Were Independent of Any Gentile Yoke: The Jewish Tribes of the Hijaz and the Jewish Kingdom of Himyar (Yemen) 6 In the Manner of the Jewish Tradition: The Jewish Kingdom of Adiabene 7 They Have No Settled, Agreed Beliefs: The Kahina and the Berber Jews 8 A Jewish National State: The Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan 9 Who Is a Jew? Zion and Identity Notes Bibliography Index