The Bene Israel and the Baghdadis: two Indian Jewish communities in conflict.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 1994| | Copyright

AT ITS HEIGHT IN THE LATE 1940s, THE JEWISH POPUlation of India numbered 26,000, amidst a population of over three hundred million, but its reputation far exceeded its size. It consisted of four communities: the first two were long-term residents--the Cochin(1) Jews of the Malabar Coast in the southwest, and the "native" Bene Israel(2) of western India. The other two were of more recent vintage: the so-called Baghdadi(3) Jews, who hailed from the Middle Eastern countries of the Ottoman Empire and settled in Bombay and Calcutta; and Jewish refugees from Central Europe fleeing ...

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