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Living far apart; Kerala's Jews.(The Last Jews of Kerala: The 2,000 Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community)(Book review)
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The Economist (US)
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August 16, 2008
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YAHEH HALLEGUA is the last Jewish woman of child-bearing age in Mattancheri. Her cousins Keith and Len are the last eligible bachelors. But she is not keen on either of them. So within a few decades the extinction of the 400-year-old Jewish community in the port-village in India's southern state of Kerala is assured.
Mattancheri is Indian Jewry's most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel-coloured houses, connected by first-floor passages and home to the last 12 sari- and sarong-wearing, white-skinned Indian Jews, are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile ...
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