A History Of The Jews Of Cochin
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A History Of The Jews Of Cochin
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Author : J. B. Segal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A History Of The Jews Of Cochin written by J. B. Segal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
A history of the Jews living in the vicinity of Cochin, southern India. From the beginning of the 16th century until 1662 the Portuguese ruled a part of this area. Pp. 32-36 describe their attempts to prevent the entry of Jews and Conversos from the Iberian peninsula to their Indian domains. In 1560 the Inquisition was instituted in Goa, which operated in Portuguese southern India and cruelly persecuted the Conversos who had settled there.
History Of The Jews Of Kerala
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Author : S. S. Koder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
History Of The Jews Of Kerala written by S. S. Koder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Jews categories.
The Last Jews Of Cochin
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Author : Nathan Katz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Last Jews Of Cochin written by Nathan Katz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
For two thousand years, a small colony of Jews in Cochin, South India, enjoyed security and prosperity, fully accepted by their Hindu, Muslim, and Christian neighbors. In this most exotic corner of the Diaspora, Jews flourished in the spice trade, agriculture, the professions, government, and military service. India's tolerant, nurturing atmosphere produced a Jewish prime minister to a Hindu maharaja; an autonomous Jewish principality; Hebrew and Malayalam-language poets; powerful, well-educated women; and Qabbalists revered by Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike. Cochin's Jews were so well-integrated into Hindu society that they evolved an identity which was both fully Indian and fully Jewish. This book analyzes the strategies by which this dual identity was established. The Cochin Jews have narrated a historical legend which emphasizes their longstanding residence in India, the site of Jewish autonomy under Hindu patronage, and their attestable origin in ancient Israel, the center of the Jewish universe. Although the Cochin Jews remained faithful to Jewish law and custom, Hindu symbols of nobility and purity were adopted into their religious observances, resulting in some of the most exotic religious practices in the Jewish world. The Jews of Cochin mirrored Hindu social structure and became a caste, well-positioned in India's hierarchy. Yet in emulating caste behavior, Jews came to discriminate against one another, in a breach of Jewish law, giving rise to a controversy which lasted five hundred years. Despite millennia of security, when their two beloved homelands, India and Israel, attained independence in the late 1940s, virtually all of the Jews living in Cochin opted for the more precarious life in Israel. This book concludes with an exploration of their reasons for leaving India and an appraisal of their adaptation to Israeli life.
The Last Jews Of Kerala
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Author : Edna Fernandes
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-03-03
The Last Jews Of Kerala written by Edna Fernandes and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with History categories.
Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when their combined number has diminished to fewer than fifty and they are on the threshold of extinction, have the two remaining Jewish communities in south India begun to realise that their destiny, and their undoing, is the same. Living in Cochin alongside this last generation, Edna Fernandes tells their story from the illustrious arrival of their ancestors from the court of King Solomon, through their long heyday of wealth, tolerance and privilege to their present twilight existence, as synagogues crumble into disuse and weddings become a thing of the past, leaving only funerals.
The Jews Of Kerala
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Author : P. M. Jussay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Jews Of Kerala written by P. M. Jussay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
The Origin And History Of The Calcutta Jews
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Author : Isaac S. Abraham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Origin And History Of The Calcutta Jews written by Isaac S. Abraham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Calcutta (India) categories.
Ruby Of Cochin
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Author : Ruby Daniel
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Release Date : 1995
Ruby Of Cochin written by Ruby Daniel and has been published by Jewish Publication Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ruby of Cochin is the first book written by a Jewish woman from Cochin. It is a rich description of Jewish life on the Southwest Coast of India, spanning many centuries. It is the story of one woman - yet it is also the story of all the Jews of Cochin, from the earliest settlements, when the Maharajah granted the Jews their land and privileged status, until today, when a transplanted Cochin community is finding new life in Israel. The book is written with a distinctive storyteller's voice and contains historical legends, ghost tales, colorful renditions of Jewish celebrations in Cochin, and translations of Jewish women's songs from Malayalam, the language of the Cochin Jews.
The Jews Of India
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Author : Orpa Slapak
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1995
The Jews Of India written by Orpa Slapak and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Jews of India, one of the lesser-known and perhaps most interesting of the Diaspora, comprise the three geographically and ethnographically distinct communities examined in The Israel Museum's unique and authoritative volume The Jews of India. The Bene Israel, the largest group at approximately 24,000 members, inhabited the Maharashtra State on India's western coast; its ties with mainstream Judaism were reestablished in the nineteenth century. The smallest and oldest of the Indian Jewish communities, the Jews of Cochin have been a presence on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India for at least a thousand years. They numbered about 2,500 in the mid-1950's, just prior to their immigration to Israel. The Baghdadi Jews migrated from Iraq and Syria to large commercial cities in western and eastern India in the late eighteenth century. Numbering about 5,000 at the population's peak, Baghdadi Jews were largely assimilated into British colonial society, did not develop a distinct material culture in India, and so are a relatively minor presence in this book. Esteemed editor Orpa Slapak spearheaded studies of all three Indian Jewish communities in Israel and in India, and has assembled a vivid and powerful portrait of these peoples. The text is profusely illustrated with striking color and black and white photographs of Indian Jews at home, work, prayer, and leisure, as well as a multitude of remarkable Indian Jewish artifacts, including illuminated manuscripts, lamps, clothing, jewelry, and household implements. Several maps, useful glossaries, and a selected bibliography complete the volume.
Kashrut Caste And Kabbalah
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Author : Nathan Katz
language : en
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Release Date : 2005
Kashrut Caste And Kabbalah written by Nathan Katz and has been published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
For The Cochin Jews, Indianness And Jewishness Are Not Neatly Demarcated Categpries, But Together Form A Seamless Universe Of Meanings, Customs, Aesthetics And Rituals. Their Indian-Jewish Identity Is Expressed As A Whole. The Book Shows Precisely How This Identity Came To Be Established Through Historical Legends, And How It Is Ritually Enacted On A Regular Basis.
The Syrian Church In India
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Author : George Milne Rae
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Syrian Church In India written by George Milne Rae and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with India categories.