In Meera Mehadevan's Shulamith, a recent Sakti novel, the dominant Hindu culture is shown to have an effect on Indian Jewish women. Shulamith, the main character in the book, has a "sense of dual fidelity" between her love for...
Nissim Ezekiel's biography has a familiar feel to it. He returned to his native city after a sojourn in the metropolis, bound to his city by complex ties: work, loves, family, and intimate knowledge of a culture to which...
It is true that a significant number of Indian Jews have emigrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom since 1947, but the reasons for this population decline remain controversial. The literary works that have...
Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, but it's her most recent work, an astonishing graphic memoir called Good Talk, that we're resharing with you this week in this "rewind" episode...
Tertullian, who attempted to draw a false distinction between Greek philosophy and Jewish faith. However, Hazony's objections are not limited to the Father of the Latin Church. The author also criticizes German research universities and their teachers for jointly...
This is the first book describing the roles of Western Jews in South Asian political affairs, medicine, painting, architecture and religion. A time-line summarises their contributions and those of the Indian Jews to the Indian subcontinent. Many of these...
Bombay Brides (HarperCollins) is a new book by Jewish author and artist Esther David, who is 73. It's about 18 stories of love and loss set in a flat in Ahmedabad, India, that is rented out to people from...
My paper is going to look at Ruby Daniel's memoir, Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers, which was published in 2002. I'm going to look at how history and identity are shown in the book. It is...
The Society for Social Regeneration & Equity (SSRE), a group that wants to break down stereotypes about religious minorities, honored Sheela Rohekar, the only Jewish novelist writing in Hindi, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. She was given an award...
Take some of the blood, and hit it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses where they'll eat it. In Exodus 12:7, God tells Moses that he has to do something
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