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Jewish Indian theory (or Hebraic Indian theory, [1] or Jewish Amerindian theory [2]) is the erroneous [3] idea that some or all of the lost tribes of Israel had travelled to the Americas and that all or some of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are of Israelite descent or were influenced by still-lost Jewish populations.
In the English culture/language context, Thorowgood's treatise Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race.With the removal of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian, [3] first published in 1650 under the encouragement of John Dury, [4] appears to be the first suggestion of the "Jewish Indian" theory, which ...
These groups include the Pashtuns (see Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites), the British (see British Israelism and Christian Identity), the French (see French Israelism), the Scandinavians (see Nordic Israelism), the Native Americans (see Jewish Indian theory), the Japanese (see Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory), and many others.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Khazar Khaganate, 650–850 The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazar converts to Judaism. The Khazars were a ...
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The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew: בני מנשה, "Children of Menasseh", known as the Shinlung in India [3]) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese [4] ethnic groups from the border of India and Burma who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, [3]: 3 allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named Manmasi. [5]
Key books detailing the history of Jewish-Native relations in the United States include Jews Among the Indians: Tales of Adventure and Conflict in the Old West by M.L. Marks, Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination by Rachel Rubinstein, and The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America by David S. Koffman.
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