>
> So why ARE there so few Jews in India? I know that historically there
> were thriving Jewish communities. Is it because they, in general,
> supported the Raj? Is it because of some form of historical leftist
> anti-semitism?
>
Most of them emigrated en masse to Israel. There have been some very famous
Indian jews (like Nissim Ezekiel, one of india's greatest poets - sadly,
died in 2004), and no active local pogroms against them that I am aware of.
Kind of like parsees, a minority that doesn't have any major local axes to
grind, some quaint religious customs that are nobody's business but their
own ..
srs
