בידספיריט | India's Bene Israel: A Comprehensive

India's Bene Israel: A Comprehensive Inquiry and Sourcebook by Shirley Berry Isenberg, - Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1988. Contains B&W plates and map. 25X16 cm. XXII+443 pages.  hardcover with DJ good condition A thorough scholarly study of the largest of India's three major Jewish communities. What began for the author as an anthropological work expanded to include a clear exposition of the Indian environment and of the history fo the community. The Bene Israel were largely in the area of Bombay and in the adjacent Kolaba disctrict along the western coast of India. A thriving community that peaked in the 1940s the Bene Israel are now a very small remnant.