The Jews were mainly based in Calcutta of West Bengal. They managed to create a full community, built synagogues, schools, and hospital for the Jewish community, where the Jews of East Bengal, mostly migrants from Calcutta lived for commercial reasons. The Jewish population in East Bengal was only about 135 Jews at the time of the Partition of British India in 1947. Mordechai Cohen, who was born in Rajshahi, became an English and Bengali newsreader for Pakistan Television in Dacca, East Pakistan. Members of the Bene Israel community also resided in Dhaka in the 1960s. By the late 1960s, much of the Jewish community had left for Calcutta. According to historian Ziauddin Tariq Ali, a trustee of the Liberation War Museum, "There were two Jewish families in Bangladesh [after independence], but both migrated to India — one in 1973 and the other in 1975." In 2018 4 Jews were in Dhaka[But despite this history, today, the Jewish population of Bangladesh is virtually non-existent. According to local sources, there are only 4 Jews living in Dhaka and they keep their identity private.What happened to the Jews of Bangladesh? - Foreign Policy ...foreignpolicyblogs.com/2018/04/30/what-happened-to-th]
