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The Jewish community in India was one of the smallest and least persecuted Jewish communities in the world; this led to a unique celebration of Purim, which often included members of other ...

For the Jews of India, Israel was not viewed as a foreign land to colonize but rather as the ancient homeland of the Jewish ...

Discover the fascinating history of Cochin, from the origins of limited overs cricket to the rise of the bustling port city.

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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 ...

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In 2016, Chaubey had shown through a similar population genetics study that India’s present-day Jews are the descendants of people who arrived in Cochin (Kochi) from West Asia in the 5th century, ...