In Cochin, Jews would use straw, rags, and branches to build an almost human-size effigy depicting Haman, the evil minister of Persian King Ahasuerus, who plots to exterminate the Jewish people in ...

By the twentieth century, Cochin Jews increasingly aligned themselves with the global Jewish community. Following the ...

THE LARGEST PART OF THE COCHIN JEWS ARE KNOWN AS “BLACK JEWS,” WHO DATE THEIR SETTLEMENT IN INDIA BACK TO THE THIRD CENTURY OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA. Help ensure Jewish news remains accessible to all.

Beta Israel Jews in Ethiopia, and Cochin Jews in India. Sephardic Jews often have different customs than Ashkenazi Jews, ...

The guests had gathered to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of one of the smallest (100 people) but most resilient communities in the Dias pora: the Jews of Cochin. According to legend ...

Arabian Jews who supposedly came to India around 52 CE and were known to have been as far south as Cochin, also in southern India. But overall, Jewish history in India may predate most of these ...

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Similarly, Cochin and Baghdadi Jews knew their roots were in Israel, and their migration was driven by a desire to return, not to escape persecution. When the State of Israel was established in ...

The major reason given for the migration of Jews from Anjuvannam to Cochin as per Historians is that the floods of 1341 changed the course of the Periyar river, it caused heavy silting of the port ...

Sarah uses her treasured Singer sewing machine [Courtesy of Thaha Ibrahim] A second wave of Jewish settlers, Sephardic Jews fleeing Spanish persecution, arrived in Cochin in 1492, journeying via ...

Beta Israel Jews in Ethiopia, and Cochin Jews in India. Sephardic Jews often have different customs than Ashkenazi Jews, including melodies for prayers, foods and forms of observance. For instance ...