Hillel Halkin, Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost
Tribe of Israel. Houghton Mifflin, 2002. The Mizos, a
people who live in a corner of India close both to Bangladesh and
Burma, have practices that seem oddly Jewish. Halkin investigated
them. His report includes a passage summarized on p. 40 of a review
in The New Republic (Sept. 23, 2002, 39-42):
The Mizo have lived in their small far eastern
corner of India for centuries. They seek to establish who their
ancestors were. Earlier in the week Halkin had received a
visit from a Mizo man who spoke with a “sudden, hard candor”; “I
want to know who I am. Show me I was once a Christian and I’ll be a
Christian. Show me I was a Jew, and I’ll be a Jew. Show me I was an
idol worshiper, and I’ll worship idols. But show me who I am.”