Author: Manasseh Rachel
Place: USA
Publisher: Midrash Ben Ish Hai
Year: 2013
Pages: 442
ISBN: 978-0-9841828-3-1
Subject: Bombay/ Mumbai
Sub-Subject: History
Keyword: Jews of Bombay, Jewish Community
Shelf: C5R5
Accession No: B1073
Contents: Foristoricalord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: Exciting narrative of the two hundred year sojourn of the Baghdadian Jewish community in the cosmopolitan city of Bombay (today’s Mumbai), India. From their early beginnings, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they established a lively community embracing brethren arriving from the Middle East and Central Asia. They left their legacy in the city, with beneficent contributions and involvement in civic life and made their mark nationally in Indian film. Their gradual dispersal followed Indian Independence, to English-speaking countries and to the newly established State of Israel. Today, the synagogues with clock towers and steeples, the ‘Queen’s necklace’ at Marine Drive, the Gateway of India, Apollo Bunder, the Prince of Wales Museum, Cuffe Parade, Flora Fountain and Crawford Market are landmarks which still remain – albeit renamed in some cases – along with a small nucleus of the original community.