MALA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:ON SAVING JEWISH MONUMENTS OF MALA KERALA UNDER PROF KARMACHANDRAN

SLIDES PRESENTED AT THE MALA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 FIDEL with PM NEHRU at UN in September 1960

 Fidel with Indira Gandhi in New Delhi 

CHE WITH PM NEHRU

 Contemplating at the jewish tombstones at Penang in Malaysia, now looked after by a kind Tamoul caretaker. 

 The Synagogue at Rangoon, Burma 

Jewish presence in Iquitos Peruvian Amazon.

 The bookseller of Mogador in Morocco. Joseph Sebag

The synagogue at Kingston, Jamaica, designed by Rudolph Cohen Henriques. One of the few synagogues in the world with sand-floor, reminiscent of Sephardic exile 

 tomb of prophet Job in the mountains outside Salalah in Oman. Job is referred to come from Dhofar (in the bible).(wife of my good friend RN in Cochin enlightened me about the life of Prophet Job!)

Benjamin of Tudela documented the presence of many jewish communities in Arabian peninsula and central asia 

The synagogue of the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan who speak a persian dialect with hebrew words, Juhuru.
Many excelled during the Soviet era. Azerbaijan is a muslim country which maintains good relationship with the State of Israel 

The Jews of Bukhara maintain their ancient traditions, they are now to be found in Jerusalem and Queens, New York.
and then there is MALA Kerala 
Here is a blog I wrote 5 years ago when I when I visited the synagogue in the presence of Prof Karmachandran and Biju Thomas.
https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2015/04/mala-synagogue-enchanting-example-of.html

I met some lovely people at Mala on 4.1.2020 when I went to present a global perspective on the great righteous deed at saving the jewish monuments at Mala.

 a set of questions for me .. happy to oblige..

The audience seems to have been a selected one, apart from the organizers, they seemed to be academics, teachers and students at the postgraduate level. It was nice to interact with them. Thank you

Thank you, Professor Ramachandran, Mr Nirshaud of the Muziris Project 
Thank you for your efforts to maintain the jewish monuments at Parur, Chendamangalam and now Mala. With the addition of the synagogues in Ernakulum and Mattancherry, five synagogues will remind people of the long history of love and affection and caring between the Jewish people of Kerala and their Hindu, Christian and Muslim neighbours.