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India’s Jew Town only has a handful of Jews left. But Jewish traditions and landmarks remain.
From the blowing of the shofar inside the now 452-year-old Paradesi Synagogue ... homes and synagogues of Jew Town — holidays were celebrated with equal gusto by Kochi’s Jews and their non ...
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Tale of the Jewish ‘Muthappan’ of Mattancherry
K OCHI: Jew Town in Mattancherry is a well-known tourist hub where visitors explore the remnants of a once-prosperous Jewish community of Kochi. While the Paradesi Synagogue here is world-famous ...
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Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89
Queenie Hallegua was the warden and managing trustee of the Paradesi Synagogue ... centered in Jew Town. According to a 1911 census, there were seven synagogues in the Cochin area and a Jewish ...
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‘Celebration of interfaith cooperation’: Kadavumbagam Synagogue reopened
KOCHI: Kadavumbagam Synagogue, a once-forgotten Jewish synagogue built in the 1200s, was reopened to the public on Sunday. Abandoned in 1972 after a majority of the Jewish residents in Kochi left ...
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PLACES TO VISIT IN KOCHI
Know what makes the famous Jew Town and Synagogue so famous, or wonder at the ancientness of St Fancis Church, Kochi has more than just enough to keep the explorers satiated. For that perfect end ...