Jews in Sri Lanka

A blog for unearthing the Jewish presence in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) historically and in the present day. A gathering forum for our small community (at home) and expatriate.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

What's Brewing?

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 One of the biggest trending issues of 2021/22 is the question of ' Who is a Jew' in relation to people recently discovering their J...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

People with Affinity to Jewish People Report, Israel 2017

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The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs in Israel in 2017 released a comprehensive report titled “Report of the Public Advisory Committee for Exam...

Update on Leopold Emmanuel Jacob Van Dort

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I have now accumulated lots of information from a variety of source in Hebrew and Dutch and will now be making a separate chapter on this a...
Friday, January 25, 2019

I am not a genealogy search agency, Jewish Identity research is important no matter how incomplete!

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I regularly get emails asking me whether their family is of Jewish origin or could I look up a relative. I am unable to assist you with thi...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Jewish war grave in Kandy Cemetery

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http://www.jwire.com.au/jewish-war-grave-sir-lanka/ In Kandy, Sri Lanka’s second largest city, there is the burial site of the Private H...

New Wikipedia entry

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A new entry has appeared with some usual focus, when I get a chance I will update it. There’s information on a Tamil lineage in this entry ...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Prashan Rodrigo?? "The Jew who came from Nowhere" or "Diminishing Sri Lankan Royal Jews",

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In 2009 I posted an item on Prashan Rodrigo who had self published a book on Jews in Sri Lanka. The books title is "The Jew who came f...

Book update

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Plugging away slowly. Sometimes two sentences might take weeks of research and verification! I estimate that the book will run to around 77...

Did you know?

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Did you know that the notorious  Jan Pieterszoon Coen Director General of trade policy in Asia for the VOC (Dutch East India Company) was a...
Monday, May 20, 2013

New Book on the Way?

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Well eventually!!!! I am currently upgrading and correcting the unpublished article I wrote in 2007 (this is circulating on the web) into a...
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Sunday, October 02, 2011

The usual anti semitic stuff

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I am afraid I have had no news items to report in the months since July. Thanks for the comments on the posts. The good news is that I have ...
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Fiona Kumari Campbell
jewsinsrilanka@gmail.com I am an academic in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee, Scotland.I hold an Adjunct Professorship in Disability Studies, at the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. I am currently writing a number of books on disability law, Buddhism and disability and of course Jews in Ceylon!
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