Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Keeping God’s House: Y Chromosomes and Old Testament Priests 8
7. Chapter 2. Lost Tribe No More? The Black Jews of South Africa 40
8. Chapter 3. Looking Out for Number Two: The Case of the Ashkenazi Levites 61
9. Chapter 4. Those Jewish Mothers: The Development of Female-Defi ned Ethnicity in the Jewish Diaspora 75
10. Chapter 5. Look on Mine Affliction: Genetic Diseases and Jewish History 100
11. Chapter 6. Jews, Genes, and the Future 115
12. Notes 121
13. Glossary 127
14. Bibliography 129
15. Index 141