Scattered among the nations: photographs and stories of the world's most isolated Jewish communities

Over 2,000 years ago, a shipwreck left seven Jewish couples stranded off India's Konkan Coast, south of Bombay.

Those hardy survivors stayed, built a community, and founded one of the fascinating groups described in this book-the Bene Israel of India's Maharasthra Province.

This story is unique, but it is not unusual. We have all heard the phrase