Danny Ben-documentary Moshe's focuses on Indian Jewish actors as forerunners who paved the way for other women to break into the Hindi cinema business.
She's still referred to as the Dream Girl. However, when Hema Malini decided to pursue a...
A. I've been interested in the Jewish communities in India for over a decade. There are several, each with its history and experience, spread across India from Mumbai and Surat to Kolkata, Manipur, Cochin, and Andhra Pradesh. While I...
Danny Ben-Moshe, an Australian academic, is working on a documentary on the forgotten Indian Jews who established the world's largest film business.
Danny Ben-Moshe, hundreds of miles away in Melbourne, came across her obituary the same week. It prompted an...
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...
She came to Cochin in 1976 to film a story about the Jews of Kerala. She was a "tiny lady with gentle eyes, but also with a piercing gaze."
Dr. Johanna Spector was a well-known ethnomusicologist at the time. She...
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...
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...
With apologies to Charles Dickens, I'd like to tell you about A Tale of Two Cities: West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Ramla, Israel, whose Rotary clubs just signed an "Agreement for Partnership." They have now been designated as sister clubs.
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The story of the Cochini Jews has been told and replayed so many times that it has been reduced to anecdotal, tourist-friendly clichés. Documentary: Rohan
Sabharwal's film on the Cochini Jews looks at the group from the perspective of individuals...
Need another reason to appreciate how hospitable India has been to immigrants, and how this openness can reshape a city and a culture?
Dwelling in Travelling, a film by Shubha Das Mollick follows the Jewish community in Kolkata via their...