ANGLO-ISRAELITE THEORY, the contention that the English-speaking peoples are the descendants of the "ten tribes" of Israel, deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Samaria in 721 B.c. The theory, still held by over 2,000,000 peo ple, materially assisted the resettlement of Jews in England in the 17th century. Richard Brothers (1757-1824), the "Nephew of the Almighty," may be regarded as its first modern apostle.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.-A. M. Hyamson, Jewish Quarterly Review, pp. 640 Bibliography.-A. M. Hyamson, Jewish Quarterly Review, pp. 640 seq. (July 1903) . Full accounts and bibliographies s.v. Anglo-Israelism in Jewish Encyclopaedia and in Hastings' E.R.E.