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

ISBN-13: 9781032091662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 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.

Spis treści

Part I: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on the Baghdadi Jews under the Raj;  1 Super-diversity among the Baghdadi Jews of India;  2 Negotiating Identity in a Changing World: from British Colonialism to Indian Independence; Part 2: Diversified Religious Life; 3 The Baghdadi Synagogues of India: Their Design Roots, Aesthetic, and History; 4 Music Traditions in the Baghdadi Jewish Communities of Bombay and Poona: Continuity, New Horizons; Part 3: The Baghdadis of Maharashtra: Formal and Informal Education; 5 Jewish Schools, Their Entrepreneurs, and Their Educational Landscape in Bombay; 6 Jewish Sports and Sectarianism in Pre-independence Bombay; Part 4: The Baghdadis of Bengal: Formal and Informal Education; 7 A Changing Heritage: Muslim Students in the Jewish Girls School in Kolkata; 8 Sport, Gender, and Socialisation: The experience of Jewish and Parsee women in Colonial and Post-colonial Bengal; Part 5: Print and Digital Dissemination; 9 Jewish Press in India in Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic as an Indispensable Source for the History of Iraqi Jews in the 19th Century; 10 Archival Cartographies: Multi-Layering Calcutta’s Baghdadi Jewish Histories

 

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.