Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Ten Tribes Are Back: The Story of David Reubeni and His Mission to Pope Clement the 7th
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The astonishing story of the Jewish “half-mystic, half-adventurer” David Reubeni (1490-1525) and how he tricked everyone in 1523 Italy, triggering a messianic movement among the conversos in Portugal.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).