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Rabbi Eliezer ben Jose of the 2nd-century AD mentions the Jewish people of India (Hebrew: הנדויים) in his work Mishnat Rabbi Eliezer, saying that they are required to ask for rain in the summer months, during their regular rainy season, yet make use of the format found for winter in the Standing Prayer, and to cite it in the blessing ...
Genetic testing into the origins of the Cochin Jewish and other Indian Jewish communities noted that until the present day the Indian Jews maintained in the range of 3%-20% Middle Eastern ancestry, confirming the traditional narrative of migration from the Middle East to India. The tests noted however that the communities had considerable ...
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]
Through the centuries, they also established Jewish communities in eastern parts of Asia. There are some Jews who migrated to India, establishing the Bene Israel, the Baghdadi Jews and the Cochin Jews of India (Jews in India); and the former Jewish community in Kaifeng, China. Here is a partial list of some prominent Asian Jews, arranged by ...
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]
Indian Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Indian Jewish communities, who now reside within the State of Israel.Indian Jews who live in Israel include thousands of Cochin Jews and Paradesi Jews of Kerala; thousands of Baghdadi Jews from Mumbai and Kolkata; tens of thousands from the Bene Israel of Maharashtra and other parts of British India and the Bnei ...
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.
People of Indian-Jewish descent (6 C, 3 P) E. Ezra family (Calcutta) (5 P) I. Indian rabbis (4 C, 3 P) Indian-Jewish diaspora (2 C, 2 P) K. Kadoorie family (1 C, 12 P ...
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