Andhra Jews keep their chin up despite the long wait to go ‘home’

Andhra Jews keep their chin up despite the long wait to go ‘home’

This Article First Appeared In The Hindu On March 18, 2023

Slumping in a chair inside a three-decade-old synagogue at Kothareddypalem of Guntur district, 60-year-old Yacobi Sadok looks hopefully towards the door.

“We will soon be called to Israel,” the man, who is the leader of the small Telugu-speaking Jewish community in Andhra Pradesh, says in a self-assuring tone. He is also the head of the Bene Yacob synagogue, one of the two Jew synagogues in the State.

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