The Jews of Cochin, like the other Jewish communities in India — Bene Israelis of Maharashtra (settled in Mumbai) and Baghdadi Jews — started moving to Israel, the so-called ‘Promised Land', in the early 1950s with great hope. Initially, they faced heavy odds in terms of language, culture, and climate, besides geographical isolation and racial discrimination. And the integration process has been very slow, when compared with other immigrant ...
