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  • 7 - Cultural Exchange and Religious Guidance along the Shores of the Arabian Sea

  • from Part ii - South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
  • Edited by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Book:
    Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
    Published online:
    11 August 2023
    Print publication:
    15 June 2023, pp 127-142

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the relations between thousands of Yemeni Jews and the Jews of the Indian subcontinent in modern times. Starting in the eighteenth century, Yemenite rabbis and emissaries filled in religious functions in Jewish communities first in Cochin and among other groups. In the opposite direction, members of Bene Israel community served as officials and officers in the British army during the time it occupied Aden in 1839. These mutual relations formed intimate ties among various communities across the Indian Ocean.

  • 5 - Jewish Communities in the Indian Subcontinent

  • from Part ii - South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
  • Edited by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Book:
    Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
    Published online:
    11 August 2023
    Print publication:
    15 June 2023, pp 91-112

  • Summary

    This chapter gives an overview of the four different Jewish groups that have inhabited the Indian subcontinent during the modern era: the Cochin Jews in southwest India; Bene Israel; the Paradesi Jews; and the Baghdadi Jews. The chapter focuses on their encounter with modernization and their subsequent identity formation. It suggests that the main conflict these Jews have faced, both as a group and as individuals, was how to reconcile between Indian nationalism and Zionism.