28 Facts About Tudor Parfitt

Tudor Parfitt was born on 10 October 1944 and is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, traveller and adventurer.

Tudor Parfitt is senior associate fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Tudor Parfitt is corresponding senior fellow of the Academie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen, Belgium and is on the board as chair of the academic advisory committee of the Paris-based Projet Aladin and is on the Committee of Experts of the New York-based Global Hope Coalition.

Tudor Parfitt is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom.

Tudor Parfitt was appointed distinguished professor at Florida International University in 2012 and distinguished university professor in 2018.

Tudor Parfitt is alumni fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard College.

Tudor Parfitt was born in Wales in 1944, the son of Vernon and Margaret Tudor Parfitt.

Tudor Parfitt expanded it for publication by the Royal Historical Society.

In 1972 Tudor Parfitt was appointed lecturer in Hebrew language, literature and history at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Tudor Parfitt was arrested by the Syrian secret police, the Mukhabarat, during his trip.

Tudor Parfitt describes these events in his first travel book, The Thirteenth Gate.

Tudor Parfitt researched and presented a BBC documentary called The Last Exile on this subject.

Tudor Parfitt has been the pioneer of the study of Judaism and Judaising movements in Africa.

In 1984 Tudor Parfitt was commissioned by the London-based Minority Rights Group to write a report on the Ethiopian Jews who had fled Ethiopia.

Tudor Parfitt later was selected as the vice-president of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry.

Tudor Parfitt published Journey to the Vanished City about his six-month journey throughout Africa.

Tudor Parfitt was nicknamed the British 'Indiana Jones,' after the film character.

Tudor Parfitt noted that their description of the ngoma was similar to that of the Biblical Ark of the Covenant.

Tudor Parfitt observed that rabbinic sources maintain that there were two Arks of the Covenant: one the ceremonial Ark, covered with gold, which was eventually placed in the Holy of Holies in the Temple; the other the Ark of War, which had been carved from wood by Moses and was a relatively simple object.

In 2007, Tudor Parfitt discovered an object he claimed was an ancient copy of the original ngoma.

Tudor Parfitt wrote The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark, documenting his findings.

In 2010 Tudor Parfitt was invited to address a symposium in Harare on the subject; attendees included the cabinet and vice-president John Nkomo.

Tudor Parfitt subsequently wrote about Judaising movements elsewhere in Africa and in 2020 described how knowledge of Black Jewish communities in Africa and particularly the community in Loango had a decisive impact on the development of race theory during the Enlightenment and later.

Tudor Parfitt's pioneering work has contributed to the expanding study of the spread of Judaism and Judaising movements throughout the African continent.

Tudor Parfitt collected DNA which helped unravel the complex history of the Bene Israel community of western India.

Tudor Parfitt did archival work on the Jews of Singapore and has recently worked with communities in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Tudor Parfitt has published widely on the margins of the Jewish world.

Tudor Parfitt has published over 100 articles and written, edited or translated 32 books which have been translated into fifteen languages.