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 foreign Jews left behind their Jewish identities. Others remained Jews, but functioned as individuals unconcerned with…
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. After moving to India…
Samuel Bak (born 12 August 1933) is a Polish-Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States. Biography Shmuel Bak was born in Vilna – Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), Bak was recognized from an early age as possessing extraordinary artistic…
Shobha “Fori” Nehru was an Indian woman who was married to BK Nehru, who was the Indian ambassador to the United States and the nephew of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. While it is clear that she is a member of the Indian aristocracy, she was born and raised as a Hungarian Jew. Take…
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 important because it is the first memoir “written by a Jewish woman from the Indian community…
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 This is what my mom remembers from when she was young. When she went to see her…