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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]
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.
Bene Israel teachers in Bombay, 1856. The Bene Israel community believes that their ancestors fled Judea during the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes and are descended from fourteen Jews, seven men and seven women, who came to India as the only survivors of a shipwreck [7] [21] near the village of Navagaon on the coast about 20 miles (32 km) south of Mumbai. [22]
More than 100 Jews from India's northeastern Manipur state have had to delay plans to emigrate to Israel as family members fell ill with COVID-19 and were placed in quarantine in New Delhi.
The Bnei Menashe are a group of more than 9,000 people from the northeastern Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur [41] who practice a form of biblical Judaism and claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, the tribe of Menasseh.
Delegation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, bearing gifts to the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III, c. 840 BCE, on the Black Obelisk, British Museum. The scriptural basis for the idea of lost tribes is 2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the ...
Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) have a tradition of descent from the lost tribe of Dan. Their tradition states that the tribe of Dan attempted to avoid the civil war in the Kingdom of Israel between Rehoboam, son of Solomon and Jeroboam, son of Nebat, by resettling in Egypt. From there they moved southwards up the Nile into Ethiopia, and the Beta ...
The Bene Ephraim (Hebrew: בני אפריים) Bnei Ephraim ("Sons of Ephraim"), also called Telugu Jews because they speak Telugu, are a small community living primarily in Kotha Reddy Palem, a village outside Chebrolu, Guntur District, and in Machilipatnam, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India, near the delta of the River Krishna. [1]