Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Bene Ephraim (Hebrew: בני אפריים) Bnei Ephraim (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. They claim to be Jewish descendants of the Tribe of Ephraim of the Lost Tribes of Israel and since the 1980s have learned to practice Judaism.