Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Baghdadi Jews were denied access to European electoral rolls in India. [47] Outsiders, and insiders, they clung fiercely to their Jewish identity. [47] Beyond India, Baghdadi Jews sought the legal status of French or British Protected Person in China. With few exceptions for the wealthiest individuals, this was routinely denied by British ...
[citation needed] Of the remaining 5,000, the largest community is concentrated in Mumbai, where 3,500 have remained from the 30,000 Jews registered there in the 1940s, divided into B'nei and Baghdadi Jews, [74] though the Baghdadi Jews refused to recognize the B'nei Israel as Jews, and withheld dispensing charity to them for that reason. [64]
A Baghdadi Jewish man contemplates his heritage, late 20th century. The history of the Jews in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, in India, began in the late eighteenth century when adventurous Baghdadi Jewish merchants originally from Aleppo and Baghdad chose to establish themselves permanently in the emerging capital of the British Raj.
The first Baghdadi Jews to come to India did so seasonally or temporarily in the late eighteenth century, arriving first in the western port city of Surat. In time, a permanent enclave was formed in Pune with others in Mumbai , Kolkata , and Yangon (Rangoon) in Myanmar (Burma).
Constructed by the Baghdadi Jewish community who first came from Iraq, Iran, and a handful of other Near Eastern countries and settled in India permanently beginning in the 18th century is a Neo-Baroque synagogue in the Fort section of Mumbai, a Renaissance revival one in central Kolkata and, in English tradition, a neo-Gothic structure in fine ...
David Joseph Ezra (Hebrew: דוד יוסף עזרא, died 1882) was a leading merchant, property developer and communal leader of the Baghdadi Jewish community in Kolkata, India. He was one of the key developers behind nineteenth century Kolkata, and was responsible for many of its most celebrated Victorian buildings and synagogues.
The Jewish community of Bombay consisted of the remnants of three distinct communities: the Bene Israeli Jews of Konkan, the Baghdadi Jews of Iraq, and the Cochin Jews of Malabar. [2] Bombay is home to the majority of India's rapidly dwindling Jewish population. At its peak, in the late 1940s, the Jewish population of Bombay reached nearly ...
Bene Israel teachers in Bombay, 1856. The Bene Israel community believes that their ancestors fled Judea during the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes and are descended from fourteen Jews, seven men and seven women, who came to India as the only survivors of a shipwreck [7] [21] near the village of Navagaon on the coast about 20 miles (32 km) south of Mumbai. [22]