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Joseph Azar was a Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish prince of the Anjuvannam
Anjuvannam

Anjuvannam or Anjuvannan refers to the Jewish community of Kingdom of Cochin.The name derives from the traditional Hindu system of castes where any person not belonging to one of the four principal castes used to be referred to as an anjuvannan....
 in Cochin, South India
South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
. He was a descendent of Joseph Rabban
Joseph Rabban

Joseph Rabban was a Jewish merchant, possibly from Yemen, who came to the Malabar coast in the mid eighth century. According to the traditions of the Cochin Jews, Joseph was granted the rank of prince over the Jews of Cochin by the Chera dynasty ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II ....
. Azar lived in the 15th century CE.






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Joseph Azar was a Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish prince of the Anjuvannam
Anjuvannam

Anjuvannam or Anjuvannan refers to the Jewish community of Kingdom of Cochin.The name derives from the traditional Hindu system of castes where any person not belonging to one of the four principal castes used to be referred to as an anjuvannan....
 in Cochin, South India
South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
. He was a descendent of Joseph Rabban
Joseph Rabban

Joseph Rabban was a Jewish merchant, possibly from Yemen, who came to the Malabar coast in the mid eighth century. According to the traditions of the Cochin Jews, Joseph was granted the rank of prince over the Jews of Cochin by the Chera dynasty ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II ....
. Azar lived in the 15th century CE. In 1430 Joseph Azar became embroiled in a conflict over succession with his brother. The ensuing strife led to intervention by neighboring potentates and the eradication of Jewish autonomy in South India.

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  • Blady, Ken. Jewish Communities in Exotic Places. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson
    Jason Aronson

    Jason Aronson is an United States publisher of books in the field of psychotherapy. Topics dealt with in these books include child therapy, family therapy, couple therapy, object relations therapy, play therapy, depression, eating disorders, personality disorders, substance abuse, sexual abuse, stress, trauma, bereavement, and other subjects....
     Inc., 2000. pp. 115-130.