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| | Gan HaLev: Across the Sabbath River |
 | | When Babylonia conquered the southern kingdom of Judah and exiled the bulk of the remaining tribes to Babylon 140 years later, the northern tribes' fate had already turned to myth. |
 | | Jeremiah has the lost tribes in vague "north country," "coasts of the world," and "distant isles." And the Jerusalem Talmud puts them "across the Sambatyon River," "enshrouded in cloud beyond the Mountains of Darkness," and "under Daphne of Antioch." Daphne, in Antakya, Turkey, was repeatedly buried by earthquakes. |
 | | Across the Sabbath River begins with the comical adventures of an ethnographically naive orthodox rabbi and a reluctant tag-along journalist, Hillel Halkin, as they hunt for lost tribes among the Chiang in southwest China, the Pashtun in Afghanistan, and the Karen in southeast Asia. |
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