It’s very rare for Indian Jews to have never been persecuted or anti-Semitic in their new country.
Thaha Ibrahim, 50, is putting together the belongings of a famous Jewish woman who lived there until a year ago. She is in Jew Town, a small town in the southern Indian state of Kerala. This is how you would say it: She was friendly, oldest, and maybe even most photographed Jew in the town of the Jews. As a skilled seamstress, Sarah Cohen was known for her beautiful embroidered kippahs (skull caps that Jews wear), the covers for their challans, and their Jewish wedding clothes.