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 to this essay. These rising port cities of the British Raj served as the first stop for thousands of Middle Eastern Jews, providing them with new commercial, social, cultural, and spatial horizons; many of them went on to settle elsewhere beyond the Indian Ocean from there. The article explores the role of these locales as the cradles from which Jewish diasporas originated, using the examples of two important families, Sassoon in Bombay and Menahem Messa in Aden.
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