Diamond manufacturer Akshay Mehta talks about the transition from and intermingling of Jewish and Indian diamond traders. Clip taken from the interactive-documentary website "Diamond Road Online", from 2007. Available to buy or stream: http://goo.gl/qNxuA.
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Kolkata: A new documentary about the city's dwindling Jewish population is on its way to show it through the eyes of the city's youngest resident.
This documentary will be directed by directors Jaydip Mukherjee and Aloke Banerjee and will follow...
Indian Doctor Aaron Abraham converts to Judaism - From tragedy in Mumbai to a Jewish life in Israel
A meeting of the Knesset Sub-Committee on Israel and the Jewish People discussing the relationship between India and the Jewish People.
Migrant communities of Middle Eastern Jews arose throughout the enormous region between Shanghai and Port Said in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Bombay and Aden are two essential knots in the formation of these far-flung Jewish diasporas, according...
A lot of people need to think about what happened to the Jews by the Nazis, which is why it's important to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.
To remember how many Jews and other people were killed by...
In this story, we'll learn about the rise and fall of Jews in the world's biggest movie business. Bollywood makes a thousand movies a year, three times more than Hollywood does, in twenty different languages that are seen by...
Rachel Jacobs, who is she? The question consumes Sadia Shepard from the minute she uncovers the name-inscribed pin in her grandmother Rahat's wardrobe. Years ago, Rachel changed her name to Rahat, lived as a Muslim in Pakistan, and buried...
More than half a century ago, the magnificent synagogues of Kolkata were packed with members of a vibrant Indian Jewish community. The congregations are no longer present—less than two dozen remain—but the mosques are still maintained by numerous generations...
WASHINGTON, D.C., 10 MAY 2011 – The Asia Society Washington Center held a screening of the documentary Next Year in Bombay, which shed light on a little-known subcontinental subculture.
The film tells the tale of the Bene Israel Jewish community,...