The Cochin Jewish community, numbering no more than 2,400 at its peak in 1948, lived in harmony with their Hindu, Christian, and Muslim neighbors. Unlike other Jewish communities, they never ...
The Jewish community in India was one of the smallest and least persecuted Jewish communities in the world; this led to a unique celebration of Purim, which often included members of other ...
“Even though there are only a few Jewish people still living in Kochi, till now they observe the laws of kashrut,” Sassoon said. In “Spice and Kosher: Exotic Cuisine of the Cochin Jews,” a ...
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The first to arrive, possibly in the last centuries BCE, were the Jews who settled in Cochin (now called Kochi), in south India. They remain a small but important presence in Kochi, a trading hub ...
In 2016, Chaubey had shown through a similar population genetics study that India’s present-day Jews are the descendants of people who arrived in Cochin (Kochi) from West Asia in the 5th century, ...
Known as Malabari Jews, the families of traders moved south to present-day Kochi, previously known as Cochin, where they built the Kochangadi Synagogue, the area’s first Jewish house of worship.
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