I spent a decent amount of time the past few months searching online for Sudanese Jews (and no in case you’re wondering, the guy in the picture is a Falasha).

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I thought writing a few collaborative posts on my blog would be a super cool thing to do and could potentially even count as a Guinness World Record of some sort. Yeah, imagine that, the first blog post in HISTORY co-authored by a Sudanese Muslim and a Sudanese Jew!

Okay, seriously though, I simply wanted to get in touch with one or two of them in order to satisfy my curiosity. They’re a tiny, tiny fascinating group of people, to me at least. Besides being homies, they’re also the demonized enemy.

So, I searched and searched. I also asked around at SudanForum (the largest Sudanese discussion board on the internet) if there were any Sudanese Jews because I remember coming across a half Sudanese Jew, half Dutch chick there a long time ago before I started blogging. Boohoo. Couldn’t find her and so I kept walking.

I even contacted the author of the book Jacob’s Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan, believing he might be a Sudanese Jew and I ended up with a reply from his son telling me he passed away quite recently. Sigh! So again I continued my search, and then one day, out of nowhere, a guy named Lirun stumbled upon this blog and commented on it.

Lirun is an Israeli. His grandmother who now resides in Israel is a Sudanese Jew which makes him only 25 % Sudanese. Close but not satisfactory considering what I was looking for, which leaves me with a question. To give up or not to give up? Hmm…

 
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