The Jews of Kolkata: For the first half of the 20th century, Kolkata, then known as Calcutta, was home to nearly 3,500 Jews. At its peak during World War II, the population grew to about 5,000 when Jews from Burma and Europe moved to the city seeking refuge, according to Jael Silliman, one of Kolkata’s remaining Jews and the author of a recent novel on the community. Ms. Silliman leads the archiving project. She has been gathering material for eight months and has received submissions from members of the Kolkata Jewish diaspora in the United States, Britain, Israel, Australia and Canada. The archive begins in 1798, when a jewel trader named Shalom Cohen arrived from Syria via Surat, a port on India’s west coast, and became the first Jew to settle in Kolkata. Most of the Jews who followed, known as Baghdadi Jews, came from present-day Iraq and Syria in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
WIKIPEDIA: According to the Bible, Galilee was named by the Israelites and was the tribal region of Naphthali and Dan, at times overlapping the Tribe of Asher's land.
ልጥፎችን በመለያ JEWS OF KOLKATA በማሳየት ላይ። ሁሉንም ልጥፎች አሳይ
ልጥፎችን በመለያ JEWS OF KOLKATA በማሳየት ላይ። ሁሉንም ልጥፎች አሳይ
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