Scenes of Jewish Life in Kerala, India (1937)

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
  • Documentary footage made by anthropologist David Mandelbaum in September, 1937.
    David Goodman Mandelbaum (1911-1987), who taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1946 until his retirement in 1978, was one of the first cultural anthropologists to undertake ethnographic research in India. In 1937, he visited Kerala during the High Holy Days, and spent two weeks with the Jewish community there, documenting many of their customs, taking photographs and a short film, and collecting materials he published in "The Jewish Way of Life in Cochin" (Jewish Social Studies 1/1939) and in several later articles. Mandelbaum served in the U.S. Army in India and Burma during the Second World War, and taught at the University of Minnesota before coming to U.C. Berkeley. His many publications included the authoritative two-volume "Society in India" (1970). His analysis of the social structure of the Kerala Jews had a significant influence on subsequent scholarship about them.
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    David G. Mandelbaum collection, 1976.311.3
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
    University of California, Berkeley
    magnes.berkeley...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 209

  • @semsemeini7905
    @semsemeini7905 7 років тому +234

    Fantastic. Most went to Israel after 1948. However India never persecuted their Jews. Impressive country.

    • @vineedkumar5170
      @vineedkumar5170 4 роки тому +29

      We Hindus Accepts Every Religion.

    • @alangervasis
      @alangervasis 3 роки тому +18

      @@vineedkumar5170 Gujarat riots, babri masjid demolition, kandhmal massacre..

    • @vineedkumar5170
      @vineedkumar5170 3 роки тому +42

      @@alangervasis You just has an Episode. I have an chronicle about what Islam did to Hinduism.

    • @alangervasis
      @alangervasis 3 роки тому +21

      @@vineedkumar5170 I have a even bigger chronicle of what hinduism did to buddhism, jainism and native tribal religions.

    • @vineedkumar5170
      @vineedkumar5170 3 роки тому +4

      @@alangervasis yeah and all are good things unlike yours religion of peace that tormented every other religion

  • @laique8797
    @laique8797 3 роки тому +100

    💚 കേരളം Kerala ❤
    The Malabar coast was and still a melting pot of diversity. We have 2000 years old Aramaic Christian community(Aramaic is the liturgical language) called MarThoma Nasranis(Saint Thomas Christians) in Kerala, we have the Muhamedians short after his advent in Arabian Peninsula, we have Jewish settlement from 72AD to till the creation of Israel, and we have great hindu monk Shankaracharya who have set foot from here 8th century AD, we have the world's first democratically elected Communist government in 1956.
    And thus, today Kerala is the best place to live in India. We embrace the differences…
    💚 കേരളം Kerala ❤

    • @jayeshmonlbs
      @jayeshmonlbs 2 роки тому +3

      It's like jerusalem

    • @AjinJose137
      @AjinJose137 Рік тому +16

      No.. Kerala is not the best place to live in because of comunism, islam and very bad climate. Humidity at it's peak😬

    • @laique8797
      @laique8797 Рік тому +10

      @@AjinJose137 😂😂😂
      Better than the Left of the Western Democracies, and tropical climate is the best of the climates and Kerala has the best of it sans Earthquakes....

    • @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781
      @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781 Рік тому +4

      ​@@AjinJose137nice joke

    • @RTAV108
      @RTAV108 4 місяці тому

      You are proid of 'democratically elected' communist govt 😂😂😂
      so how many of you have converted coerced and massacred the hindus of the land while bragging about multicultural richness of the same land?
      Hypocrites of the lowest and highest order at the same time..

  • @drsatheesh
    @drsatheesh 10 років тому +79

    Thank you for the unknown guy form another part of the world videotaping our ancestors and making it a part of our history.

  • @JojoBoy-gh4gb
    @JojoBoy-gh4gb 3 місяці тому +11

    The Cochin Jews are dressed just like the local Malabaris , wow, indistinguishable except for Jewish caps ! …Jewish children are playing with French Gallic roosters gifted by the French( Basel mission catholics?) 😊😊…beautiful innocent times !

  • @petepaul8295
    @petepaul8295 6 років тому +33

    Jews in India were the luckiest

    • @Stevie-J
      @Stevie-J 3 місяці тому +5

      Yes they weren't terrorized by mossad and forced to move to Israel, like many of the Jewish enclaves in the middle east

  • @jobinsavier7441
    @jobinsavier7441 10 років тому +26

    wow its the ancient jews of kerala really informative

  • @seanwingfield977
    @seanwingfield977 2 місяці тому +7

    India is a great country because of its religious freedom and tolerance for others. We never were persecuted there. The synagogue is still standing and still used in Cochin.

    • @sarahshilansky5093
      @sarahshilansky5093 Місяць тому

      In 2024 Muslims are attempting to erase the Jewish history of Kochi, while at the same time gaining all the tourist money from Jewish interests. The very last Jew in Kochi died recently.

    • @plazmagaming2182
      @plazmagaming2182 2 дні тому

      This is not india. Its kerala

  • @Anonymous-yz9ie
    @Anonymous-yz9ie 2 роки тому +7

    This is SO amazing!

  • @shajijoseph98
    @shajijoseph98 10 років тому +14

    Great work!

  • @Ignoto1392
    @Ignoto1392 6 років тому +7

    Great photography, 😉

  • @georgeabraham215
    @georgeabraham215 11 років тому +7

    What an exquisite footage of 1937.How come this showed IP only now. If there are more please post.Viewed it 5 times.it would have been good with sound.

  • @Gyantech880
    @Gyantech880 8 років тому +37

    this is the greatness of india..

    • @TheRishijoesanu
      @TheRishijoesanu 3 роки тому +15

      Greatness of Kerala. Kerala was very different from rest of India back then. The state had nearly 50% literacy rate in 1947.

    • @advaidsivadas7945
      @advaidsivadas7945 3 роки тому +9

      @@TheRishijoesanu wtf is kerala is situated in india... Or kerala is any other country...??

    • @JoshJ12
      @JoshJ12 3 роки тому +5

      @@advaidsivadas7945 Kerala became part of India much later in history heck my grandparents were born in Travancore not India. Stop trying to push Indian agenda when each state or ethnic group has uniques stories that predate the concept of India.

    • @gouthamkrishnan6718
      @gouthamkrishnan6718 3 роки тому

      @@JoshJ12 Then we can cut India into pieces,Are you happy with that?Kerala culture comes under greater Indic culture or Indo sphere.

    • @JoshJ12
      @JoshJ12 3 роки тому

      @@gouthamkrishnan6718 Same with Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan heck even Korea and Japan. Where would you stop? It doesn't make sense at all.

  • @stanleymoskowitz5841
    @stanleymoskowitz5841 8 років тому +26

    BEAUTIFUL INDIA .

  • @aiisaac9417
    @aiisaac9417 9 років тому +7

    thank you for putting up

  • @Justin-nm4sg
    @Justin-nm4sg 5 років тому +43

    Feeling proud when remembering that people of God were in our state...
    Waiting for the Messianic restoration of ur beautiful kingdom....
    *Shalom*

    • @spiritualtruth1354
      @spiritualtruth1354 4 роки тому

      U sure about that because the ppl in Israel right now are definitely not biblical Jews Europeans are not biblical jews🤔

    • @Justin-nm4sg
      @Justin-nm4sg 4 роки тому +3

      @@spiritualtruth1354 There is a remnant that God seperated in every genaration in different era

    • @spiritualtruth1354
      @spiritualtruth1354 4 роки тому

      @@Justin-nm4sg your assuming? There is a remnant that will be saved in Revalations as far as another remnant dont think so and as I said those ppl in Israel and not biblical Jews they are converts..

    • @Justin-nm4sg
      @Justin-nm4sg 4 роки тому +3

      @@spiritualtruth1354 *Our understanding of Revelation is incomplete if we don’t understand how Israel is involved.*
      God chose Israel to be His representatives on earth. They are the people through which the oracles of God would be made known to the world, and it is through Israel that God’s plan of redemption would be executed. God made several eternal promises to Israel, which makes it only natural to expect that Israel would play a key role in the end times, and scripture reveals that they will.
      In Revelation, we observe the following things about Israel in the end times (see Revelation Overview for explanations of timing):
      .God will call 144,000 Jews to be sealed as His servants upon the earth (Rev 7:1-8, Rev 14:1-5).
      .Israel will come under severe attack by the nations for 42 months (Rev 11:2, Rev 12:13).
      .This attack begins with the abomination of desolation event at the midpoint (Matt 24:15).
      However, a remnant of Israel will be protected by God during those 42 months of great tribulation (Israel is symbolized by the “woman” in Rev 12:6,13-17).
      There will be two Jewish witnesses speaking mightily in Jerusalem (Rev 11:3) during those 42 months (or 1,260 days).
      .They will pronounce plagues upon the earth (Rev 11:6).
      .The 42 months conclude with the two witnesses being killed by Antichrist (Rev 11:7), but they will be resurrected after 3 1/2 days (Rev 11:11, 12).
      .God’s wrath upon the earth begins with the bowl events (Rev 16:1), and it concludes with all nations amassing at Armageddon with intent to attack and destroy the remnant of Israel (Rev 16:13-16).
      Christ, as Israel’s king, will visibly return to defend His people and destroy the nations (Rev 19:11-16).
      Christ will reign as Israel’s king in Zion during the millennial kingdom (Rev 20:6), and finally there will be a new Jerusalem (Rev 21:10).
      However, there are many Christians who believe that the nation Israel no longer has any special relevance to God. In their minds, Israel rejected their Messiah, and so God terminated His relationship with them, effectively replacing them with a new group called the “church“.
      People who hold this view feel compelled to interpret Revelation’s references to Israel in allegorical ways, usually arguing that the references to Israel are really mystical references to the church, which they refer to as “spiritual Israel“.
      However, the view that the nation Israel is irrelevant cannot be right, and neither are the consequent allegorical interpretations of Revelation. The eternal promises that God made to the nation Israel include prophecies that in the end times, Israel will repent and acknowledge Christ as their Savior, that they will serve God, and they will be protected by God - exactly as Revelation says they will.

    • @Justin-nm4sg
      @Justin-nm4sg 4 роки тому +2

      @@spiritualtruth1354 How do you proving that they are not Jews but Europeans..
      Even if there is any converts in Judaism (Proselytes) the Abrhamic Jewish Community will receive them..
      That there in there law...

  • @reazuddinahmed2580
    @reazuddinahmed2580 8 років тому +20

    india is great

  • @kevin88fern
    @kevin88fern 11 років тому +6

    Very clear and crisp for a 1937 circa video...with sound it would been even more gr8

  • @Jess-mw7ez
    @Jess-mw7ez 8 років тому +7

    very nice work

  • @ajithaunnipg7391
    @ajithaunnipg7391 Рік тому +3

    Great &fantastic vidieo -Shaloom 🙏

  • @darsanatvla
    @darsanatvla 10 років тому +2

    thank you ...

  • @jeenajohn2030
    @jeenajohn2030 3 роки тому +1

    This is wonderful ❤️

  • @jibinmathews5936
    @jibinmathews5936 8 років тому +12

    amazing to see faces and expressions from 80 yrs ago

  • @sanwarali6262
    @sanwarali6262 4 роки тому +2

    Really nice vedio shalom😊😊

  • @marko9131
    @marko9131 2 роки тому +1

    This is golden

  • @galvaconsultant
    @galvaconsultant 7 років тому +8

    I love Jew and Israel.

  • @shashankshukla8811
    @shashankshukla8811 7 місяців тому +2

    Uh could see they wore white clothes made from Gandhi’so charkha homemade
    They were following Gandhi and fighting for Indian independence
    British persecuted Jews too.
    They were fighting for the injustice salute 🫡🫡

  • @BEN-mm9ki
    @BEN-mm9ki 4 роки тому

    THANK U

  • @justincaseiamhere
    @justincaseiamhere 7 років тому +6

    Shalom

  • @su-cy9tn
    @su-cy9tn 3 місяці тому +5

    Jewish 🇮🇱❤️

  • @sebastiankt2421
    @sebastiankt2421 2 місяці тому +1

    എവിടെയാണീസ്ഥലം? പറവൂർ?മാള?

  • @petepaul8295
    @petepaul8295 6 років тому +7

    This is when the world War 2 was going on

  • @asifmahmood3634
    @asifmahmood3634 4 місяці тому +2

    Very large number of Jews are living in Central Asian Muslim countries including in Turkey and Iran. They are well protected from last 1400 years.

    • @sarahshilansky5093
      @sarahshilansky5093 3 місяці тому +1

      Anyone who was classified as a Dhimmi was not in an ideal situation. An individual from a minority group would have credibility to validate that.

  • @jaichavi
    @jaichavi 4 місяці тому +1

    Pl show sm also abt Bene Izraeli jews from Mumbai ❤

  • @emil8239
    @emil8239 5 років тому +11

    Syrian christians have jewish ethnicity

    • @nadeemyounis3001
      @nadeemyounis3001 3 роки тому +1

      Thats not true they are indians

    • @emil8239
      @emil8239 3 роки тому +8

      @@nadeemyounis3001 But some of the christians have jewish background in India

    • @thendino1
      @thendino1 3 роки тому +7

      @@nadeemyounis3001
      It is true regarding a certain community called Knanaya Catholics/jacobites

    • @JoshJ12
      @JoshJ12 3 роки тому +1

      @@thendino1 Even Kollam Nasranis have some Persian or other Western Asian ancestry due to settlement of Persian Christians.

    • @JoshJ12
      @JoshJ12 2 роки тому

      @Rau Dayu My family is from Kollam, but tbh we are form Thirssur originally. I have approximately 10% Iraqi Jewish DNA and 3% North East Asian.

  • @ajok9418
    @ajok9418 Рік тому +1

    Is it ernakulam Broadway?

  • @anonymous-ds4ix
    @anonymous-ds4ix Рік тому +1

    They are our people...

  • @shibinps
    @shibinps 7 років тому +5

    People shown at the starting point of this video seems more to be indian Christians or Muslims, and one in the religious procession are jews.

    • @abeenaiype5866
      @abeenaiype5866 5 років тому +16

      No.They are black Jews. There are black jews(cochin Jews) who are here from 500 bc and Pardesi jews who came from spain around 1500AD. The modern looking people are Pardeshi Jews

    • @sanwarali6262
      @sanwarali6262 4 роки тому

      😊😊shalom

  • @JPRN57
    @JPRN57 3 місяці тому +1

    Keralam is the best place in India 🎉😂

  • @semsemeini7905
    @semsemeini7905 7 років тому +13

    A shame the Jews of Europe did not flee to Kerala where it was safe. However it was under British rule then.

    • @sumitrau7021
      @sumitrau7021 7 років тому +6

      because majority people is hindu ..not radical islamit or cristian

    • @Manu-tf9cu
      @Manu-tf9cu 7 років тому +4

      Semsem Eini they did. Spanish and Portuguese Jews did come to India in the 16th century.

    • @shibinps
      @shibinps 7 років тому +7

      Histlorically kerala had been peaceful and radical Islam is not so prevailing in there, but there has been a rise in religious fundamentalism . From my point Me myself born into a muslim family feels more jews should try coming back to kerala where they are dwindling in number due to migration to Israel.

    • @allenbency6603
      @allenbency6603 4 роки тому

      @@sumitrau7021 there is no radicalism in christinity

    • @nadeemyounis3001
      @nadeemyounis3001 3 роки тому +1

      @@sumitrau7021 mattachery is a christian area

  • @Hyejin.park23
    @Hyejin.park23 4 місяці тому +1

    So can people coming from India claimed that they belong to the Middle East?

    • @hellokitty524
      @hellokitty524 3 місяці тому +2

      Apparently, people have been flowing from the Indus Valley throughout the millennia. The gypsies, Romani, and many others as we see here glowed from India into other regions.

  • @stebinsaju5780
    @stebinsaju5780 7 років тому +5

    Shema yisreal

  • @41parasu
    @41parasu 2 роки тому +1

    They are very similar to christians and muslims

  • @tonyscott2164
    @tonyscott2164 3 місяці тому

    Lets be honest they could be any Indians living at that time in India, at the start of the video.

  • @indianisraliteskumar7017
    @indianisraliteskumar7017 Рік тому +1

    This video shows kerala had all black Jews....diaspora khonkani and latestly pardesi jews

  • @rajarshidutta9266
    @rajarshidutta9266 3 місяці тому +1

    Are they Jewish or Muslim?

    • @ai-fg3kw
      @ai-fg3kw 3 місяці тому +4

      Jews are very similar to muslims in many aspects

    • @sarahshilansky5093
      @sarahshilansky5093 Місяць тому

      Because Islam was based, and took so much from the 4,000 year old Judaism. Even Jewish people resided on the Malabar Coast many hundreds of years before the invention of Islam! It’s easy to see where the credibility lies!

    • @ai-fg3kw
      @ai-fg3kw Місяць тому

      @@sarahshilansky5093 Christians are also similar. But they are living in some parallel universe 😂
      Practising something else 😂

  • @TheJewishtraveler
    @TheJewishtraveler 3 місяці тому

    I was in Jew town today. Wow!!

    • @sarahshilansky5093
      @sarahshilansky5093 Місяць тому

      Yes wow, virtually every merchant is Muslim! Including Thaha Ibrahim, who ‘inherited’ the business and property of childless Jewish women Sarah Cohen. According to a friend with deep personal and historical knowledge of Kochi, she hated him. This story is metaphorical behind Jewish interests in Kochi now falling to Muslims for financial and power gains.

  • @jenkar5716
    @jenkar5716 3 місяці тому

    They are called Paradesis.

  • @ujjwalsharma8295
    @ujjwalsharma8295 3 роки тому +3

    Beautiful Britishers n there peaceful Christian faith 😘🙏

    • @Maria-ec9sb
      @Maria-ec9sb 3 роки тому +15

      They are Jewish not Christians but Jesus Christ is a jew .😊

    • @laique8797
      @laique8797 3 роки тому +8

      💚 കേരളം Kerala ❤
      The Malabar coast was and still a melting pot of diversity. We have 2000 years old Aramaic Christian community(Aramaic is the liturgical language) called MarThoma Nasranis(Saint Thomas Christians) in Kerala, we have the Muhamedians short after his advent in Arabian Peninsula, we have Jewish settlement from 72AD to till the creation of Israel, and we have great hindu monk Shankaracharya who have set foot from here 8th century AD, we have the world's first democratically elected Communist government.
      And thus, today Kerala is the best place to live in India. We embrace the differences…

    • @JoshJ12
      @JoshJ12 3 роки тому +5

      @@joel12388 Kerala or Cheranadu never was part of India toll the 1950s. The cultures of Kerala are unique and diverse. It's a melting pot of many Middle Eastern, West Asian, Tamizh, North Indian, Yemeni, Chinese, Burmese cultures. That's why Kerala became diverse with religions, cultures and languages till Malayalam was officially formed and dominated.

    • @sankarie3687
      @sankarie3687 2 роки тому +2

      @@joel12388 please stop spreading fake news and stop degrading malayalam 🙏 they itself said that they r Malayalees migrated to Israel.

    • @TheAbinn
      @TheAbinn 2 роки тому

      @@joel12388 hey tamil...... Go away...... Your tamil nadu is ruled by British so tamil nadu is British you guys treat as slave.... Now shut off..... We malayali culture is different...... You black nigaa

  • @sajithkumar2923
    @sajithkumar2923 4 місяці тому

    I love Israel

  • @kajahussain.s4011
    @kajahussain.s4011 4 місяці тому

    குண்டு