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THE WHITE JEWS.
—Little Folks Maga
zine.
In Cochin, a town on the coast of
Travancore. a state in the south-west
of India, there is a small body of Jews
who are called White Jews, because
their skin is fair and their hair light.
They were once very numerous along
this coast, but in ■ Cochin, where they
have a quarter all to themselves, there
are now only some 200 of them. - They
have dwelt here for hundreds of years
as a distinct race, and claim to be de
scendants of the Jews who fled from
Jerusalem after its destruction by the
Romans (a.d 70).-
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