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This short history is compiled from a paper read by Mr. S.S. Koder before the Kerala History Association in 1965, his article in the Souvenir printed on the occasion of the inauguration of the Nehru Memorial Town Hall, Mattanherri in 1968 and Miss Fiona Hallegua's thesis "The Jewish community of Cochin - its twilight years" for her Master's degree in Sociology written in 1984.