Bene Ephraim

Bene Ephraim

Ethnic group
group = Bnei Ephraim
poptime = 350 Primack, Karen. [http://www.kulanu.org/india/andhra-pradesh.php Meeting the Jews of Andhra Pradesh] . 2007]
popplace = Andhra Pradesh, India: 350 (estimate)
langs = Telugu, Hebrew
rels = Judaism
related = "Tradition" : Jews Indian Jews Bnei Ephraim "Ethnobiology" : Jewish Bnei EphraimThe Bene Ephraim, (Hebrew: "Sons of Ephraim") also called Telugu Jews because they speak Telugu, are a small community of Jews living primarily in Kottareddipalem, a village outside Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, near the delta of the River Krishna. Yacobi, Sadok. [http://www.kulanu.org/india/bneiephraim.php Bene Ephraim of Andhra Pradesh, South India] ] [ [http://nextyearinmumbai.blogspot.com/2008/03/last-week-we-followed-one-of-our-main.html A week with the Bene Ephraim of Andra Pradesh] entry in blog "Next Year In Mumbai : The Blog" March 18, 2008.]

The Bene Ephraim claim to trace their observance of Judaism back to ancient times, and recount a history similar to that of the Bnei Menashe in the northeastern Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur: adoption of Christianity upon the arrival of Baptist missionaries around the beginning of the 19th century.

Since 1981Yacobi, Sadok. [http://www.kulanu.org/india/bneiephraim.php Bene Ephraim of Andhra Pradesh, South India] ] , about fifty families around Kottareddipalem and Ongole (capital of the nearby district of Prakasham) have studied Judaism, learned Hebrew, and sought recognition from other Jewish communities around the world. Because of the very recent emergence of this community, and the current overwhelming emphasis on the use of Hebrew as a living language, rather than merely a liturgical language, the impact of Hebrew on the daily speech of this community has not led to the development, as yet, of a distinctly identifiable "Judæo-Telugu" language or dialect. ("See Jewish languages".)

The community has been visited over the years, by several groups of rabbis, who have thus far not seen fit to extend the same recognition to this community as that recently extended to the Bnei Menashe.

ee also

*Andhra Pradesh
*History of the Jews in India
*Bnei Menashe
*Shavei Israel

References

* Francisco, Jason L., [http://www.kulanu.org/india/telugu_jews.php Meet the Telugu Jews of India] ( [http://www.kulanu.org kulanu.org] )
* Sussman, Bonita & Gerald., [http://www.kulanu.org/india/indiajournal07.php India Journal] , 2007 ( [http://www.kulanu.org kulanu.org] )
*Kulanu's [http://www.kulanu.org/india/ Indian Jews] index.


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