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[[File:Beni-israel-india.jpg|thumb|19th century Bene Israel]]<br />
[[File:Beni-israel-india-2.jpg|thumb|Bene Israel in Bombay]]<br />
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[[File:Bene israel-cimetiere juif de bombay en inde.jpg|thumb|A Bene Israel cemetery in Bombay]]<br />
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[[Jews]] started settling in [[Bombay]] in the 18th century.<ref name="bombayjew">{{cite news | first = Shalva | last = Weil | title = Background: A rich history now stained with blood | date = 2008-11-30 | url = http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Background-A-rich-history-now-stained-with-blood | work = [[The Jerusalem Post]] | accessdate = 2013-09-01}}</ref> The Jewish community of Bombay consisted of three distant groups, the [[Bene Israel]]i Jews, the [[Baghdadi Jews]], and the [[Cochin Jews]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v3Pf4qand_8C&pg=PA69&dq=bombay+jews+marathi&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IkQjUvqpGImQrQfu-4CwBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bombay%20jews%20marathi&f=false The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights, p.69]</ref><br />
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The [[Bene Israel]]i Jewish community of Bombay, who migrated from the [[Konkan|Konkan villages]], south of Bombay, are believed to be the descendants of the Jews of Israel who were shipwrecked off the Konkan coast, probably in the year 175 BCE, during the reign of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] ruler, [[Antiochus IV Epiphanes]]. Following the pogroms of Daud Pasha of Baghdad, many [[Baghdadi Jews]] fled Iraq, and settled in Bombay.<ref name="bombayjew"/><br />
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==Culture==<br />
The [[Bene Israel]]i Jewish community of Bombay speak the [[Marathi language]], an [[Indo-Aryan language]] spoken in the state of [[Maharashtra]] in [[India]].<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{citation |title=The Bene-Israel of Bombay: An Appeal for Their Christian Education |author=John Wilson |year=1865}}<br />
*{{citation |title=The Bene Israel of Bombay |author=Rebecca Reuben |year=1913}}<br />
*{{citation |title=The Tribes and Castes of Bombay |volume=1 |pages=69–70 |year=1920 |author=Reginald E. Enthoven}}<br />
*{{citation |title=The Bene Israel of Bombay: a study of a Jewish community |author=Schifra Strizower |year=1971}}<br />
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