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The history of the Jews in Mumbai (previously known as Bombay), India, began when Jews started settling in Bombay during the 18th century, due to its economic opportunities.〔Weil, Shalva. ''India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle.'' Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2009 (published in 2002; 3rd edn. ).〕 The Jewish community of Bombay consisted of the remnants of three distinct communities: the Bene Israeli Jews of Konkan, the Baghdadi Jews of Iraq, and the Cochin Jews of Malabar. Bombay is home to the majority of India's rapidly dwindling Jewish population. At its peak, in the late 1940s, the Jewish population of Bombay reached nearly 30,000. ==Arrival in Bombay== The first Baghdadi Jew, Joseph Semah, moved to Bombay from Surat in 1730〔Lentin, Samuel Sifra (ed) Weil, Shalva. "The Jewish Presence in Bombay."''India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle''. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2009 (published in 2002; 3rd edn. ), pp. 22-35.〕 and the first member of the Bene Israel community to move from the Konkan villages〔Weil, Shalva. ''The Jews from the Konkan: the Bene Israel Community of India''. TelAviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. 1981.〕 south of Bombay to the city arrived in 1746 part of the Divekar family. In 1796 Samuel Ezekiel Divekar (1730-1797) established "The Gate of Mercy" synagogue.〔Weil, Shalva. 2009 'The Heritage and Legacy of Indian Jews' in Shalva Weil (ed.) India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications (published in 2002; 3rd edn. ), pp. 8-21. Weil, Shalva. 2007 'Bene Israel' (3: 335-339); 'Cochin Jews', in Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds) Encyclopedia Judaica, 1st ed., Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, CD-Rom. Weil, Shalva. 2008 'Jews in India', (3: 1204-1212); ' in M.Avrum Erlich (ed.) Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC CLIO.11. 2010a 'Bombay'; 'Calcutta'; 'India'; 'Pakistan'; in Norman A. Stillman (ed.) Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Leiden:Brill Weil, Shalva. 2011 'Bene Israel', in Adele Berlin (Ed. in Chief) Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 131. Weil, Shalva. 2011 'Bene Israel' in Judith Baskin (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, New York: Cambridge University Press. 59. Weil, Shalva. 2013 "Jews of India" in Raphael Patai and Haya Bar Itzhak (eds.) Jewish Folklore and Traditions: A Multicultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Inc. (1: 255-258)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Jews in Mumbai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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