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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Rushdie is only reporting on what the Israelite communities in India themselves have to say. The Malabar coast has been home to Israelites since Solomon's time so they say. Ivory, apes, and peacocks were what they primarily sent back to the Levant from India and those words in the ancient Hebrew documents are loan words from Indian lects. The dark skinned Israelites of India are the Cochini and the Bene Israel. Much later in history lighter skinned Israelites and white Jews arrived in the sub continent, Baghdadi (Sassoon)and Ashkenazi. At least that much of what Rushdie writes is verifiable. The Cochini of Malabar named themselves the Black Jews by colour in distinction of the Iraqi whom they dubbed White Jews. On the other hand, when Bene Israel use Black Jew they are referring to an internal caste they developed before the Iraqi arrived. Benjamin Tudela a 12th century traveller to India from Iberia's Israelite community wrote: [QUOTE][i]The inhabitants are all black and the Jews also. They know the Law of Moses and the Prophets, and to a small extent the Talmud and the Halakha.[/i][/QUOTE]The Bnei Manesseh now receiving much coverage were unknown to Malabar, Bene Israel, and Baghdadi alike. Nonetheless they are embraced by the well known older communities as a part of the Jews of India. The Jews from India still experience discrimination from European Jews in Israel particularly at the time of marriages. Dr. Ben published a NY Times clipping recording the discrimination India's Jews faced during a wheat shortage in Israel. Shopkeepers refused to sell them any wheat at any price telling them: "White bread for white Jews and black bread for black Jews." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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