The Cochin Jews are India's oldest Jewish community, with roots that are said to go back to King Solomon's time. The Cochin Jews settled in the Kingdom of Cochin, which is today part of Kerala, in South India.
In September 1937, anthropologist David Mandelbaum short documentary film. One of the first cultural anthropologists to conduct ethnographic research in India was David Goodman Mandelbaum (1911-1987), who taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1946 until his retirement in...
It's thought that the first Jews in India lived on the Malabar coast around the middle of the 9th century BCE. That's about 2,800 years ago. After King Solomon died in 931 BC, Israel split into two kingdoms: Israel and...