The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew: בני מנשה, lit. 'Children of Menasseh', known as the Shinlung in India) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burman speaking ethnic groups from the border of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar who claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes, allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named 'Manmasi'. Some of them have adopted Judaism.
The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew: בני מנשה, lit. 'Children of Menasseh', known as the Shinlung in India) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burman speaking ethnic groups from the border of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar who claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes, allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named 'Manmasi'. Some of them have adopted Judaism.
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