“We were a community of five thousand in the 1940s; now we’re just 20 odd members, aged 60 or above,” says Jael Silliman, scholar and author of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (2001). One of the last remaining Jews in Calcutta, Silliman reminisces about the time when the Jewish community met in synagogues for service, in Jewish clubs for sports and leisure, and came together to celebrate New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the holiest day of all — Yom Kippur. But colonialism and circumstances reduced Calcutta’s Jewry to a mere handful. Today, only remnants...
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