ISBN: 978-1641890670
ARC Humanities Press, 2023 $145.00 (hardback)
From the moment Portuguese merchants arrived on the southwest coast of India in the early sixteenth century, the Jewish community they found there was subjected to the fascinated gaze of Europeans. Various legends and origin stories were attached to it, the most misleading of which assumed they had been there since time immemorial, had been isolated from the wider Jewish world, and that European
