History of the Jews in Bangladesh

Now, only a few Jewish families live in Bangladesh very quietly (practicing Crypto-Judaism) due to government policy towards Israel.

Some of the prominent Jewish residents included Mordechai Cohen, a former television newsreader and actor;[2] and Alex Aronson, an academic who taught at the University of Dhaka.

A notable episode during the colonial period involved Alex Aronson, a German Jewish academic and friend of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

[4] 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.

"[8] In 2018 4 Jews were in Dhaka[9] The Polish-American Jewish architect Louis Kahn worked in East Pakistan and post-independent Bangladesh to design the Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban.

During the Bangladesh War of Independence, Major General J. F. R. Jacob played a key role in the surrender of Pakistan.

Israeli recognition was first requested last April in a letter from Acting President Nazrul Islam and Foreign Minister Mostaq Ahmad of the Bengali provisional government which was then fighting a war of secession from Pakistan".