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The Last Jews of Kerala narrates the rise and fall of the Black Jews and the White Jews over the centuries and within the context of the grand history of the Jewish people. It is the story of the twilight days of a people whose community will, within the next generation, cease to exist. Yet it is also a rich tale of weddings and funerals, of loyalty to family and fierce individualism, of desperation and hope.
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Thanks to the people who made this book possible. First, I am fortunate to have publishers who are both inspiring individuals as well as great editors. Thank you to my London publisher Philip Gwyn Jones, publisher of Portobello Books and Granta, and his team, including Laura Barber and Hannah Marshall. Thank you to Brando Skyhorse and his team at Skyhorse Publishing in New York, and to Ravi Singh, publisher at Penguin India in New Delhi. Im also grateful to freelance editor Daphne Tagg for her insightful copy-editing and to my literary agent Ayesha Karim at Aitken Alexander Associates for her valued support. Thank you to Storm Design for my website: www.ednafernandes.com .
The book was made possible by the kind co-operation of the Cochini Jews of Ernakulam, Mattancherry and Israel. Throughout, I have valued their trust, generosity of spirit in the face of adversity and stories. I am appreciative of the help I received at the British Museum, the Paradesi and Chennamangalam synagogues, as well as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Last, love and thanks to my friends and family, particularly: Felix, Andrew Atkinson, Max and Elfina Fernandes, Maria Fernandes, Tania Fernandes, and Bernard and Sylvia Atkinson.
E.F., 2008
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This land itself was a secret, shared between the sea and mountains, an illegitimate child of the two natural forces, protected by and provided for in a special way. Therefore, there was an assurance of plenty and peace.
M.G.S. NARAYAN, CULTURAL SYMBIOSIS IN KERALA
K .J. Joy sat on the steps of the Paradesi Synagogue in Mattancherry and with the gesture of an open palm offered me a seat beside him. If ever a man lived up to his name, it was the shamash or caretaker of the local synagogue. In his fifties, he possessed still-boyish features and an equanimity that absorbed lifes petty trials with easy humor. He was tall, with a languid air and a face of delicately wrought dark features lit by a smile that eclipsed the gloom around us.
He drew his knees up beneath his chin and clasped his arms around his legs in weariness. It had been a long day. Since early morning he had stood on sentry duty outside the sixteenth-century synagogue, shooing away the streams of tourists who came calling daily. Now as the sun melted into the ragged Mattancherry skyline and the evening settled around our shoulders like a blue-grey shroud, Mr. Joy could loosen the tensions of duty and relax.
It was October 1: Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement and fasting for the Jewish community. The synagogue doors were bolted and the houses of Synagogue Lane, home to the remaining handful of White Jews, were closed to the outside world. Doors and lower windows were shuttered tight, lace curtains on the upper windows drawn, lights off. The heat of the day yielded to a cool stillness, and an uneasy quiet pervaded. With the approach of nightfall, Synagogue Lane had become a place of repose for phantasmal shadows.
Mr. Joy cast a pensive glance down the one way street that is Synagogue Lane and the heart of Jew Town. Once a bustling community, it was now home to only twelve White Jews.
He had worked as caretaker at the synagogue for twenty-five years, taking responsibility for its daily upkeep, lighting the oil lamps for Shabbat and the festivals, polishing brass work, dusting chandeliers, chaperoning the hordes who came calling every day, corralling groups of excited school kids, explaining the history and generally keeping the public at bay and out of the path of the prickly Paradesi elders. Through it all, he remained composed, serene, sometimes a smile of mischievous amusement playing beneath his black moustache.
I pulled out my notebook containing a list of names, the names of the Cochini White Jews I had carefully gleaned from historical accounts and memoirs like jewels from the dust, and began to read them to Joy, who adopted the furtive manner of a Cold War spy betraying classified information to the enemy. His dark eyes darted towards the windows and doorways of the Jewish houses down the length of the street as he answered in a conspiratorial whisper:
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