ABSTRACT
Jews everywhere were frightened by the course of events in Nazi Germany, the rise of Fascist parties throughout Europe, and the deteriorating situation in Palestine. An increasing stream of central European Jewish refugees seeking shelter in India required the local communities to mobilize support to sustain them and to keep the doors open. The Jews needed to safeguard their rights as an important and influential minority community, just as Anglo-Indians had done. Like Anglo-Indians, they had joined hands with the British and fought for them, in the Indian defense and other expeditionary forces. Although a sprinkling of independent European Jews had come to Bombay in the late 1920s, it was not until after 1933, when the refugees began to arrive, that the problems of their absorption demanded the attention of the Jews of India.
