Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries.
Only now, when their combined number is less than fifty and they are on the threshold of extinction, have the two last Jewish communities in Kerala begun to realize that their destiny, and their undoing, is the same.
Living in Cochin alongside this last generation, Edna Fernandes tells their story from the illustrious arrival of their ancestors through their long heyday of tolerance and privilege to their present twilit existence, as synagogues crumble into disuse and weddings disappear, leaving only funerals.
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