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by the famous Italian explorer,
Amerigo Vespucci (from whom
America derives its name), on his
trip to India from 1505 to 1500.
Among the illustrative drawings
in this work is one representing the
king of Cochin as he is being carried
by his chiefs. On this picture are
to be found all those insignia and
trappings of regal power and au
thority which are named in the
copper plates the palanquin, the
drum, the trumpet and the um
brella. Thus the picture might
well be that of Joseph Rabban,
prince of the Jewish state of Ajuva-
nam, being carried by his liege lords.
Vnfortunately, we know nothing
of this curious Jewish state except
that it existed and was destroyed.
There are extant, however, a num
ber of descriptions of the area in
which Ajuvanam was located, which
must apply to the Jewish territory
too. And in all these descriptions
Jews arc frequently mentioned, but
not their state. Marco Polo de
scribed Kulam, a neighbor of A juva
nam, as “the home of many Jewish
and Christian merchants.” 11m
Batuta, the Arab traveller, eon-
firmed the opinion of Rabbi Benja
min of Tudela, who praised t lit*
honesty of t lie* people of Malabar.
“They punish a thief with death,”
Batuta wrote, “even if he has stolen
nothing but a single nutmeg or a
few grains of corn. That is why
thieves are unknown there.” Doubt
less, a similar custom prevailed in
Ajuvanam, which was a vassal state
of the king of ('ochin.
All travellers who visited India
up to the time of the European con
quests praised the excellent organi
zation of trade on the Malabar
('oast. As the Malabar coast prob
ably enjoyed several centuries of
peace and unhampered progress
until the appearance of the Moham
medans, it is safe to assume that the
Jewish state of Ajuvanam, under the
reign of Joseph Rabban and a long
lint' of his successors, also enjoyed
great prosperity and uneventful
development. We know nothing,
however, of how the Jews o" Ajuva
nam lived, nor what sort of intel
lectual life they led. After the all
too brief glimmer of light thrown
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Apostle Of Justice
{('on tin uetl from page 22)
ing hours of a period in which busi
ness men, to succeed, will be com
pelled to adopt the sort of policies
that will give us an increasingly
better social order, where the aver
age man will not be compelled to
exhaust himself in merely providing
food, clothing and shelter for him
self, wife and children, with virtu
ally no energy left for the higher
things of life. If the United States
is any nearer to such a social order
today than it was a generation ago
it is in no small measure due to the
gospel preached and practiced by
Edward A. Filene.
(Copyright 1937 Jor The Southern Israelite)
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