the wealthier baghdadi jewish merchant families from kolkata with ties to the british establishment and the sassoon family settled in west london where they soon formed the majority of the historic spanish and portuguese jews congregation in maida vale. those less wealthy settled in golders green in north london. by the early 1960s golders green had become home to a larger baghdadi jewish diaspora from shanghai, burma, india and singapore who founded numerous small synagogues following the mizrahi jewish rite. by the end of the 1950s there were more kolkata jews in golders green than in kolkata at the time.