In India, there are fewer than 4,000 Jews, although there are around 100,000 Indian Jews in Israel. Take a look at how it all went down.
Sophie Judah first realized she was Jewish when she was 14 years old and received a copy of Anne Frank’s diary from her uncle. “I’ve read it seven times since then,” she recalls, “and I’ve read (Leon Uris’ novel) Exodus ten times.” Sophie, who was born in Pune, is now 56 years old and lives in Israel with her husband and five children.
Sophie came to my attention by chance. I recently came upon a coffee-table book about Indian Jews, which had a compilation of extremely poignant stories about daily life in this society. Sophie Judah, an Indian Jew, wrote the book Dropped From Heaven, and while in Israel later that year, I made plans to see her at her home in Hod Hasharon, a village north of Tel Aviv. Sophie and her husband, Simon, told me an amazing story.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/a-home-away-from-home/article4653200.ece
