[Cronos]

thanks for that EleutheriA! What is Russofarsi? And by Buchara do you mean the Jews from Uzbekistan?

Those are ancient Israelites -- descended from Naphtali, right?

[Eleutheria5]

I don’t know if they’re from Naftali, but they generally come from around Uzbekistan. My chavruta in yeshiva was a Buchara born in Uzbekistan, and he never mentioned any claim of descent from a lost tribe.