This chapter focuses on presenting the Shanghai Baghdadi Jewish community from a new angle, that of its marginal status within Shanghai's Western community. David Sassoon established a trading firm upon his arrival in Bombay, and in less than a...
Who are the Baghdadi Jews?
In the late 1800s, Jews from Arab countries and Iran came to India. They are called "Baghdadi Jews." There were a lot of 'Baghdadi' Jews who came from Baghdad, but there were also a lot...
The congregation of Baghdadi Jews in Shanghai dedicated the newly completed structure that will house the Ohel Rachel Synagogue on January 23, 1921. It was built in the Greek Revival style of London's Bevis Marks and Lauderdale Road synagogues...
Baghdadi Jews, also known as Indo-Iraqi Jews, are mostly descended from Baghdad and other parts of the Middle East, as the name implies. They first established themselves in ports and along trade routes in the Indian Ocean and the...
The Bene-Israel and Baghdadi Jews of India: A history of this minority community
Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Night of the Scorpion" will always be remembered fondly by generations of Indian school students, particularly those...
Baghdadi came to refer to all Jews from Iraq, Syria, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, as well as Jews from Aden, Yemen, and even Persia and Afghanistan. Baghdad, on the other hand, was always viewed as their...
Baghdadi Jewish Merchants in Shanghai and the Opium Trade
Between 1858 and 1917, the opium trade was legal in China. The trade-in of this addictive, highly crippling narcotic drug was heavily dominated by...
Jael Silliman is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Iowa and the author of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Hopeful Diaspora (Brandeis University Press, 2002). The experiences of four generations of Jewish...
The immigration of Arabic-speaking Jews from Baghdad and Basra, as well as other parts of the Ottoman Empire, transformed the mosaic of Jewish communities in India toward the end of the eighteenth century. These arrivals, who were supplemented by...
The Jewish Museum in London presents the story of British Jews while also honoring the Jewish community as a whole. The Baghdadi Jewish community in India is one such community.
This Jewish population, which originated in Iraq and spread over...