The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity

ISBN-13: 9780367203252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Shalva Weil

Opis

This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained independence in 1947.

O autorze

Shalva Weil is Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical Studies and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa.