JEWS ACTRESS ,IN INDIA ,HIDED THEIR IDENTIDIES IN SILENT FILMS ERA
JEWS ACTRESS ,IN INDIA ,HIDED THEIR IDENTIDIES IN SILENT FILMS ERA jewish women were Indian cinema's first actresses Jewish women were an integral part of early Indian cinema, especially the silent era The Indian Cinema owes a deep debt of gratitude to the Baghdadi Jewish community for its women among all the communities in India were the first to act in films, at a great risk to their reputation, at a time when the participation of women in performing arts was a taboo. During the silent era, most of India’s film stars were Jewish. But they, except a few, could not continue with their successful careers, once the talkies were introduced as they were incapable of delivering dialogues in Hindi because of their Anglicized upbringing. In this photo-essay, first published on Café Dissensus in December 2014 under the title “Indian Jews in Cinema”, Kenneth X. Robbins draws our attention to the Jewish contributions to Indian cinema. It has been reproduced in full with the perm...