While these are not exactly Jewish tribesmen singing Sh'ma Yisrael in Hebrew in Papua New Guinea (they're tribesmen taught by Christian missionaries), we thought this video would be an interesting addition to our collection of Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places.
Papua New Guinea has been associated with mudmen, cannibals, and headhunters for many years, but we understand that these practices have been practically eliminated there. Still, a large majority of the residents are illiterate.
A Jewish convert to Christianity evidently remembered the words and melody of Sh'ma Yisrael and the sentence Baruch Shem K'vod Malchuto L'olam Va'ed and taught them to the members of this picturesque group, who repeated them with relish. Enjoy!
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(A tip of the kippah to Aliza Kwiat for bringing this video to our attention)
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Many Papua New Guineans are crazy about Israel and can do anything for Israel.
ReplyDeleteIn fact some ehtnic groups in Papaua New Guinea have recently traced their Jewish ancestry and awaiting scientific DNA results from blood and other genetic samples taken from them.
Many traditional beliefs and customs in Papaua New Guine are similar to that of Israel.
Papua New Guinea is known by the modern world
as the LAST FRONTIER.The people have come out of the cave age into jet age in a short span of only about 100 years. Yes 100 hundred only when compared to the western world.
they were are higly civilsed people in their own standards and united as one nation despite having more than 1000 tribes and languages.