Title: Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers Author: Ruby Daniel, Barbara C. Johnson Published: April 2002 Country Published: USA Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America ISBN-10: 0827607407 ISBN-13: 978-0827607408 Description: This is the first book written by a Jewish woman from the Indian community of Cochin. Filled with rich descriptions of Jewish life…
Title: Studies of Indian Jewish Identity Author: Nathan Katz Published: August 1, 1999 Country Published: India Publisher: South Asia Books ISBN-10: 8173040710 ISBN-13: 978-8173040719 Description: The seven contributions in this volume analyse the historical, social and religious identity in three distinct communities of Indian Jews the Cochin Jews the Bene Israel and the Baghdadi Jews….
Title: The Jewish Printed Book in India: Imprints of the Blumenthal Rare Book & Manuscript Library Author: Fred D. Astren Published: October 1992 Country Published: USA Publisher: Judah L Magnes Museum ISBN-10: 0943376556 ISBN-13: 978-0943376554 Description: A catalog of 141 items in the collection with short physical descriptions and with illustrations of some title pages…
Title: India’s Bene Israel: A Comprehensive Inquiry and Sourcebook Author: Shirley Berry Isenberg Published: June 1989 Country Published: USA Publisher: Judah L Magnes Museum ISBN-10: 0943376270 ISBN-13: 978-0943376271 Description: A thorough scholarly study of the largest of India’s three major Jewish communities. What began for the author as an anthropological work expanded to include a…
Title: The Sephardic Table: The Vibrant Cooking of the Mediterranean Jews Author: Pamela Grau Twena Published: August 15, 1998 Country Published: USA Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-10: 0395892600 ISBN-13: 978-0395892602 Description: Sephardic Jews include those who left Spain during the Inquisition in 1492 and the people in Jewish communities where the Babylonian Talmud is followed….
Title: The origin and history of the Calcutta Jews Author: I. S Abraham Published: 1969 Country Published: India Publisher: Daw Sen ASIN: B0007IL44G Description: History of Jews in India Location URL: http://www.amazon.com/origin-history-Calcutta-Jews/dp/B0007IL44G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312655982&sr=1-1
Title: One people;: The story of the Eastern Jews, (Sabra books) Author: Devorah Hakohen Published: 1969 Country Published: USA Publisher: Funk and Wagnalls ASIN: B0006CZ84U Description: Twenty Centuries of Jewish Life in North Africa, Asia and Southeastern Europe. Location URL: http://www.amazon.com/One-people-story-Eastern-Sabra/dp/B0006CZ84U/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312655548&sr=1-2
Title: Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) Author: Joan G. Roland Published: February 1, 1989 Country Published: UK Publisher: Brandeis; First Print edition ISBN-10: 0874514576 ISBN-13: 978-0874514575 Description: Focusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries,…
Title: Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture Author: Aamir R. Mufti Published: April 9, 2007 Country Published: USA Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN-10: 069105732X ISBN-13: 978-0691057323 Description: By the late eighteenth-century…the ‘protean Jew’ was…’neither outsider nor one of us’. Mufti begins with the ‘paradigmatic narratives’ of minority existence…
Title: An Appeal On Behalf Of The Jews Scattered In India, Persia, And Arabia Author: J. Samuel Published: February 15, 2010 Country Published: UK Publisher: Bill Press ISBN-10: 1445500140 ISBN-13: 978-1445500140 Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing…