“Few are aware, and most have forgotten how much the community has contributed to the growth of this city,” rued Dr Shaul Sapir, when this journalist met with the scholar, over a week ago. The visiting professor from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University was in town to put finishing touches to his opus about Mumbai’s Baghdadi Jews — a community, which in its heyday (1950s and ’60s) added up to a 6,000, at least. Today, only a handful remains in the city, he revealed.