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Eric Maroney is a freelance writer and works at Cornell University. He is also the author of Religious Syncretism.

This well-done and revealing study shows that, even after the final, futile revolt against Roman rule in Judea in the first century, A.D., Jews exercised sovereignty in several regions outside the traditional Jewish homeland. . . . This is an informative and surprising examination of some obscure aspects of Jewish history.

• Chapter 1 A Neutral Piece of Land: The Jewish StateChapter 2 So If the King of Israel Should Come With His Men: The Lost Tribes in History and MythChapter 3 King Solomon Loved Many Strange Women: The Jewish Kingdom of EthiopiaChapter 4 Though We Are Far From Zion: The Khazar Jewish KingdomChapter 5 And Jews Were Independent of Any Gentile Yoke: The Jewish Tribes of the Hijaz and the Jewish Kingdom of HimyarChapter 6 In the Manner of the Jewish Tradition: The Jewish Kingdom of AdiabeneChapter 7 They Have No Settled, Agreed Beliefs: The Kahina and the BerbersChapter 8 A Jewish National State: The Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region in BirobidzhanChapter 9 Who Is a Jew? Zion and IdentityChapter 10 Bibliography