For 900 years there was a small Jewish community on India’s Malabar Coast, living at peace with its Hindu, Muslim and Christian neighbors. It was been a model of interfaith tolerance. But, as ...

The remaining families of another ancient Jewish community, that of Cochin in India, will soon be brought to Israel, S. Z. Shragai, head of the Jewish Agency’s immigration department, told a ...

As part of my discovery of the Jews of incredible India, I flew to a very popular destination of Jewish India – the historic and serene city of Cochin, now called Kochi, in the southern state of ...

In “ Spice and Kosher: Exotic Cuisine of the Cochin Jews,” a cookbook of Cochini Jewish recipes compiled by Sassoon, Kenny Salem and Bala Menon, ancient recipes such as Cochini pastels (crispy ...

For centuries, Cochin Jews marked Purim by burning effigies of Haman, while the holiday represented the day when Jews from all backgrounds celebrated together ...

The Cochin Jews (a term that refers to Jews living in several towns and villages along the coast) then numbered 2,500 — a grain of rice among India's teeming millions, most of them Hindu.

The comparatively small Jewish population of India – after the census of 1921 there were hardly 20,000 out of a general population of 352 million – fell into four groups: the Cochin Jews of ...

The Cochin Jewish community, numbering no more than 2,400 at its peak in 1948, lived in harmony with their Hindu, Christian, and Muslim neighbors. Unlike other Jewish communities, they never ...

When it comes to Jewish history in India, there are several communities usually discussed. The oldest are the Cochin Jews of Kerala on southwest India’s Malabar coast.

The Jews of Cochin, a state on the west coast of India, are planning to celebrate the 400th anniversary of their main synagogue in 1968, it was announced at a press conference here today by Samuel ...

The Jewish community of Kerala, India, better known as Cochin Jews, has been shrinking ever since most of its members emigrated to Israel. Those who remain claim to be “the oldest diaspora ...