The Fate of the Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora in British Asia
from Part iii - Southeast Asia: Colonial Legacies and Emerging Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2023
This chapter examines the Baghdadi network in British Asia and its identity crisis during decolonization with a focus on Southeast Asia and the survival of the Singapore community in particular. The chapter argues that through the colonization process, the transient identity of the Baghdadi Jewish diasporic communities was largely cemented as an anglicized one. However, following decolonization, the class divide within the communities was made all the more obvious as the anglicized elites emigrated to English-speaking countries while leaving the poor behind, as noted in Singapore.
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