with his son Sassoon Judah to India. At first he lived in Bombay and later migrated to Calcutta. His wife subsequently joined him two years later with their son Nissim travelling the long journey to India by donkey. Ezekiel Judah appears to have by trade been a leading indigo, silk and muslin trader. On the back of this fortune as a philanthropist, Ezekiel Judah established the first synagogue in Calcutta, known as Neveh Shalom in Hebrew, which translates as the Abode of Peace, in 1825. He co-founded the second synagogue Beth-El, in 1856 with David Joseph Ezra. Ezekiel Judah and the Judah family are described in the epic travelogue of the Ashkenazi Jewish writer J. J. Benjamin. Describing the community of Calcutta, using the term then in use amongst Mizrahi Jews to refer to a rabbi, he wrote, "they are all well educated, but have no appointed Chachamim; one of the richest commercial men of the town Ezekiel Jehuda Jacob Sliman, a very enlightened man and an excellent talmudist, performs the duties of the Chacham." J. J. Benjamin described his visit to Singapore that the elders of the small community there were the sons of Ezekiel Judah. Ezekiel Judah's enlightened views can be seen in his view towards the Bene Israel, whom many other Baghdadi Jews sought to separate from and exclude from their synagogues on account of their darker skin and being native to India. In 1843, Ezekiel Judah wrote to the Rabbis of Baghdad concerning the Bene Israel. He wrote, "they give birth to sons and circumcise them as we do, they teach them Talmud-Torah with our children. They are exactly as we, without any difference, and we always call them to the Sefer Torah in accordance with the custom of the Jewish people. May we give them our daughters and may we take their daughters?" Sadly no record of the response to Ezekiel Judah survives. In Calcutta Ezekiel Judah, as in Bombay like his relative David Sassoon, sought to align the Baghdadi Jewish community with the British and be seen to publicly support the colonial power, eventually become a naturalised British subject. Ezekiel Judah died on 22 April 1860 in Calcutta, having not reached his sixtieth year. He is buried in Calcutta. For a year after Ezekiel Judah's death his sons invited Rabbis from Baghdad, Jerusalem and Syria and the poor Jews of Calcutta to study Torah