The Jews in India may not have had the economic opportunities of the ones in Europe, however, they have lived safely and securely without discrimination or hate through all the years they have lived in that land.Even the Indian muzzies largely left them alone.
The same cannot be said about civilized eastern and western Europe, where periodically they have faced the horrors of progroms, discrimination, and even a mass extermination effort. What is the point in wealth, if one fine day they take it all away including their lives for being jewish. Even Israel, and previously Palestine, they are targeted for being jews.
So India may not have been "not so hot", but at least their lives, property and way of life were secure. I think the only other place where the jews have been at peace is in North America.
I read an author, name of Lewis, who wrote that the Ottoman Empire was at one point very restrictive on exactly what type of work a Jew could do within their Empire, and limited Jews to working as slavers.
If I were an eastern European of Slavic ethnicity, I wouldn’t like the people who enslaved me, either.
To think that the Muslims made Jews enslave Christians in Europe and you have a pretty good idea of exactly why there was enmity of Europeans towards Jews.
A lot of evil has been perpetrated by Islam during the past 1400 years.
” I think the only other place where the jews have been at peace is in North America.”
Actually there were plenty of instances of discrimination against Jews during the early days of Jewish settlement. And Jewish history in the US is less then a couple hundred years old, by comparison the Jews have lived in peace in India since 8th century BC. So....no, India is still THE ONLY country in the world where Jews have lived in peace.