On 1 March at 2pm, Edna Fernandes and fellow author Sophie Judah discussed the history of India’s Jewish Diaspora and its decline in numbers as part of the Jewish Book Week Literary Festival in London’s Bloomsbury. The discussion ranged from the internal conflict of those Jews who left India for Israel as well as the story of the racial divide that plagued Kerala’s Jews for four centuries.
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After the fullness I felt from reading Rodger Kamenetz’s book dealing with a Jewish delegation visiting Dharamsala, Fernandes’ book is all that same color, but perhaps better to identify the Indian condition. My bro visited Cochin, and stood outside the Jewish graveyard–even this is a perspective for the “in” granted by this Kerala book. l’cha toda