I just got back from India two weeks ago. INDIA! For those of you who have not been following the blog, I just finished staffing a gap-year program called Kivunim: New Directions. Kivunim seeks to explore Jewish history, and to that end travels to over 10 different countries to learn about different communities in the…
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Article: Rare Jewish-Indian Haggadah found in Salford
Dr Wise said the Haggadah gives an insight into the community’s life A rare Jewish text, published for the “Black Jews of India” in the 19th Century, has been discovered in a garage sale in Salford. The 137-year-old Poona Haggadah, used by the Bene Israel community at Passover, was found by University of Manchester historian,…
How One Town Is Preserving the History of India’s Oldest Jewish Settlers
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…
Article: Jews of India
INDIA IS PERHAPS the only country in the world where Jews haven’t suffered anti-Semitism from the natives. Judaism was one of the first religions to arrive in India. The first wave came to Kerala following the capture of Jerusalem and the destruction of their first temple there by the Babylonians under Nebuchednezzar in 597 BC….