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Kochi sits on the Arabian Sea. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA) A sign denotes Kochi's 'Jew street,' as it is known locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA) A look inside the 452-year-old Paradesi Synagogue in Kochi. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA) KOCHI, India (JTA) — Take a walk down this coastal city’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts — a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish. “There are only two peopl...

Take a walk down the street here in coastal Kochi’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts — a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish. “There are only two people left in Jew Town,” said Shalva Weil, a senior researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading figure on the Jewish communities of India. Once a vibrant community of approximately 3,000 at its peak in the 1950s, only a handful o...

December 15, 2020 1:53 pm A sign denotes Kochi's "Jew street," as it is known locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. (Christabel Lobo) Advertisement KOCHI, India (JTA) — Take a walk down this coastal city’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts — a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish.  “There are only two people left in Jew Town,” said Shalva Weil, a senior researcher at the Seymour Fox Schoo...