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“In the period after the fall of Jerusalem, Jews were again expelled from their holy city and their fortunes scattered to foreign winds. Again, they were exiles. It was to this juncture in history that the Cochini Jews attributed the arrival of the first large-scale community of Jewish migrants from Israeli to Indian soil. The Kerala coastline was already on the map of the Jewish people due to trading links that went back almost a millennium. Now in their moment of desperation, the Jews of Israel came not as”
― Edna Fernandes, The Last Jews of Kerala: The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community