The Jerusalem Post Blogs20d
Role reversal, effigy burning, and cultural syncretism: Purim in Cochin
The two major Jewish communities in the region were the Paradesi Jews, who were made up of refugees from Spain and Portugal following the expulsion edict in 1492, and the Cochin or Malabar Jews ...
Purim and protest: The role of effigies in Cochin Jewish tradition
By the twentieth century, Cochin Jews increasingly aligned themselves with the global Jewish community. Following the ...
Cochin: Where the past meets the port
As part of the Kerala Travel Mart last year, we (The Statesman) embarked on a tour of Fort Kochi, guided by Rajesh PK, ...
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Cochin Jews at the 450th year celebration of the Paradesi synagogue, December 2017 (IMAGE)
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The Story of India
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 ...