The last Jews of Cochin: Jewish identity in Hindu India
For two thousand years, a small colony of Jews in Cochin, South India, enjoyed security and prosperity, fully accepted by their Hindu, Muslim, and Christian neighbors. In this most exotic corner of the Diaspora, Jews flourished in the spice trade, agriculture, the professions, government, and milita...
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| Zusammenfassung: | For two thousand years, a small colony of Jews in Cochin, South India, enjoyed security and prosperity, fully accepted by their Hindu, Muslim, and Christian neighbors. In this most exotic corner of the Diaspora, Jews flourished in the spice trade, agriculture, the professions, government, and military service. India's tolerant, nurturing atmosphere produced a Jewish prime minister to a Hindu maharaja; an autonomous Jewish principality; Hebrew and Malayalam-language poets; powerful, well-educated women; and Qabbalists revered by Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike. Cochin's Jews were so well-integrated into Hindu society that they evolved an identity which was both fully Indian and fully Jewish. This book analyzes the strategies by which this dual identity was established. The Cochin Jews have narrated a historical legend which emphasizes their longstanding residence in India, the site of Jewish autonomy under Hindu patronage, and their attestable origin in ancient Israel, the center of the Jewish universe. Although the Cochin Jews remained faithful to Jewish law and custom, Hindu symbols of nobility and purity were adopted into their religious observances, resulting in some of the most exotic religious practices in the Jewish world. The Jews of Cochin mirrored Hindu social structure and became a caste, well-positioned in India's hierarchy. Yet in emulating caste behavior, Jews came to discriminate against one another, in a breach of Jewish law, giving rise to a controversy which lasted five hundred years. Despite millennia of security, when their two beloved homelands, India and Israel, attained independence in the late 1940s, virtually all of the Jews living in Cochin opted for the more precarious life in Israel. This book concludes with an exploration of their reasons for leaving India and an appraisal of their adaptation to Israeli life. |
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| adam_text | The Last Jews
of Cochin
Jewish Identity in Hindu India
by Nathan Katz and Ellen S Goldberg
University of South Carolina Press
CONTENTS
Illustrations ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xvi
Prologue xviii
Part I: The Cochin Jews Story
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Historical Legends and Memories 8
Chapter 2: Spices and Monsoon Winds:
Ancient Times 25
Chapter 3: A Jewish King at Shingly 35
Chapter 4: The Synagogues of Cochin 62
Chapter 5: A Second Golden Age:
Merchant-Princes, Poets, and Mystics 88
Chapter 6: Modern Times: The British and Swaraj 111
Chapter 7: Jewish Apartheid and a Jewish Gandhi 126
Part II: Rituals and Identity
Introduction 163
Chapter 8: The Royalty of the Autumn Sacred Cycle 168
Chapter 9: Spring Rites:
An Ascetic Passover 195
Chapter 10: A Shabbat Interlude 220
Chapter 11: Life-Cycle Rituals:
Every Bridegroom is Joseph Rabban 226
Conclusions: Caste, Jewish Survival, and Hindu Tolerance 247
Epilogue 250
Notes 297
Sources Cited 324
Index 343
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