The Jews of Africa (1920)

"Mendelssohn...put forward a multitude of details about the...common descent of the Jews and the native people of South Africa." - The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity (2008) "Stray references to Ethiopian Jews...were diligently assembled by the bibliophile Sidney Mendelssohn." - The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews (2012) "Mendelssohn, a Jewish mining magnate in South Africa, observed...when he looked at a crowd of black men...certain faces stood out as being ind