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    The history of the Jews in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, in India, began in the late eighteenth century when adventurous Baghdadi Jewish merchants...
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    The history of the Jews in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The Jews of British India and Pakistan...
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  • The history of the Jews in India dates back to antiquity. Judaism was one of the first foreign religions to arrive in the Indian subcontinent in recorded...
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    Kolkata's Jews are mostly Baghdadi Jews who came to Kolkata to trade. At one point as strong as 6,000, the community dwindled to about 60 after the formation...
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  • Kolkata Jewish Community of Mumbai Paradesi Jews Sephardic Jews in India History of the Jews in Iran Persian Jews History of the Jews in Iraq History...
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  • Bnei Menashe (redirect from Mizo Jews)
    Gathering of Israel Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites#Bnei Menashe History of the Jews in India History of the Jews in Kolkata Religion in India#Judaism...
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    Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern...
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    David Joseph Ezra (category Year of birth missing)
    Sheriff of Calcutta and a director of the Reserve Bank of India. History of the Jews in Kolkata "David Joseph Ezra". geni_family_tree. 20 December 1796...
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    Indian Jews who live in Israel include thousands of Cochin Jews and Paradesi Jews of Kerala; thousands of Baghdadi Jews from Mumbai and Kolkata; tens of thousands...
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    David Elias Ezra (category Sheriffs of Kolkata)
    Jewish Relief Association and of The Asiatic Society. Ezra died in 1947. History of the Jews in Kolkata Baghdadi Jewish Women in India. Joan G. Roland and...
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    Baghdadi Jews (Hebrew: יהודים בגדדים, romanized: Yehudim Bagdadim; Arabic: اليهود البغداد, romanized: Al-Yahūd Al-Baghdādi) or Iraqi Jews are historic...
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    Elias David Ezra (category People from the Bengal Presidency)
    Sassoon of Bombay. His son were Sir David Ezra and Alfred Ezra. History of the Jews in Kolkata "Calcutta". Joseph Jacobs & Joseph Ezekiel, jewishencyclopedia...
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    synagogue located in Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a monument of national importance. It was built in 1856. Above the entrance is a pediment...
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    The history of the Jews in Hong Kong starts when Jews were among the first settlers after Hong Kong became a British colony in 1841. The first Jews arrived...
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    Bunny Jacob (category Businesspeople from Kolkata)
    England. History of the Jews in Kolkata Bernard Jacob. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories of the Jewish community...
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    Some, particularly those belonging to the Baghdadi Jews based in Mumbai, Kolkata, and Pune, are grand and built in various Western styles using fine materials...
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  • David Mordecai (category Artists from Kolkata)
    (Editor) The Himalayas: An illustrated summary of the world's highest mountain ranges. Calcutta, Daw Sen, 1966. History of the Jews in Kolkata David Mordecai...
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  • Synagogue (Kolkata) Magen David Synagogue (Kolkata) India portal Judaism portal History of the Jews in India Lists of synagogues in India Synagogues in India...
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    Nahoum & Sons (category Culture of Kolkata)
    of the culture of Kolkata. Various famous personalities of India have eaten from this bakery. Nahoum Israel Mordecai was a Baghdadi Jew who was the founder...
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  • Shalom Obadiah Cohen (category People from Kolkata)
    Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Funk and Wagnalls. "Jews of Kolkata: A slice of history". The Times of India....
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    Judaism (redirect from Beliefs of jews)
    Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel), Mizrahi Jews, and Romaniote Jews, may possess unique customs and practices. In Israel, the classification...
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    a very famous landmark of the city of Kolkata. And one of the many famous cinema halls in the Esplanade area of Central Kolkata. This cinema hall was built...
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  • Jael Silliman (category People from Kolkata)
    Jewish Calcutta The digital archive about the history and culture of Jewish community in Calcutta Marks, Zach. "The Last Jews of Kolkata". The New York Times...
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  • descents of the Afghans from the Jews with that of the Romans and the British from the Trojans, and that of the Irish from the Milesians or Brahmins." — Mountstuart...
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    Esther Victoria Abraham (category Beauty pageant contestants from Kolkata)
    was born in 1916 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to a Baghdadi Jewish family. She was the daughter of Reuben Abraham, a Jewish businessman from Kolkata, by his...
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    Judeo-Urdu (category Jewish Indian history)
    dialect of the Urdu language spoken by the Baghdadi Jews in the Indian subcontinent living in the areas of Mumbai and Kolkata towards the end of the 18th...
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    of Armenians with India. Today there are about a hundred, most of whom currently live in or around Kolkata. The earliest documented references to the...
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    and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the third-largest...
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    The history of navigation, or the history of seafaring, is the art of directing vessels upon the open sea through the establishment of its position and...
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    occurred in the Bengal region of India, near Calcutta (now Kolkata), starting in 1817 through 1824. The disease dispersed from India to Southeast Asia, the Middle...
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