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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 ...
Alongside the adoption of various Indian societal practices and customs, these jobs helped Jewish immigrants create a sense of their unique cultural place and identity as Jews within British India. Immigration policy within the British Empire in the late 1930s and early 1940s often complicated Jewish entry into British India.
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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]
In contrast are the synagogues built by the Cochin Jews of Kerala, India. [6] Influenced by Indian building traditions coupled with the influences of visiting merchants and imperialists over the centuries, the Cochin synagogues constitute wonderful examples of the vernacular "thachusasthra" design of Kerala. Until the 16th century and the ...
For instance, a Haggadah from 1911 contains Hebrew written in Devanagari, [1] and a prayer book with instructions in Marathi written in the Hebrew script. [2] In 2011, a Marathi-Hebrew text titled Poona Haggadah, was found in Salford. The 137-year-old book, which was used by the Bene-Israel community, was discovered by historian Yaakov Wise. [3]
The Jewish Merchant-Colony in Madras (Fort St. George) during the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Contribution to the Economic and Social History of the Jews in India (Concluded) Walter J. Fischel; The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History edited by W. Rubinstein, Michael A. Jolles; Harikrishnan, Charmy (23 November 2008).