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2.   Today, any Jew called a "Yehudi" is simply a "non-Levi" -- exact  tribe  
unknown [--TK]


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Of course re-reading that, I realize it's an obvious error
 
All Jews today are called Yehudim, with no implication that any particular  
tribe is meant.  
 
Historically that happened because at the time of the Churban Bayis Rishon,  
the great majority of Jews still around were from the tribe of Yehuda, and in  
Bavel, where the exiles were taken, there were no tribal divisions and no  
separate cities or areas where members of particular tribes clustered.  All  the 
Jews intermingled there.  When they came back to E'Y after 70 years  they no 
longer lived in specific tribal areas and probably most of them had  already 
forgotten exactly which tribe they belonged to by then.

 

--Toby  Katz
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