Baghdadi Jews in India
Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity
Shalva Weil (Redaktør)
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. Les mer
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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.
Chapters on schools, institutions and culture present how Baghdadis in India managed to maintain their communities by negotiating multiple identities in a stratified and complex society. Several disciplinary perspectives are utilized to explore the super-diversity of the Baghdadis and the ways in which they successfully adapted to new situations during the Raj, while retaining particular traditions and modifying and incorporating others. Providing a comprehensive overview of this community, the contributions to the book show that the legacy of the Baghdadi Jews lives on for Indians today through landmarks and monuments in Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata, and for Jews, through memories woven by members of the community residing in diverse diasporas.
Offering refreshing historical perspectives on the colonial period in India, this book will be of interest to those studying South Asian Studies, Diaspora and Ethnic Studies, Sociology, History, Jewish Studies and Asian Religion.
Chapters on schools, institutions and culture present how Baghdadis in India managed to maintain their communities by negotiating multiple identities in a stratified and complex society. Several disciplinary perspectives are utilized to explore the super-diversity of the Baghdadis and the ways in which they successfully adapted to new situations during the Raj, while retaining particular traditions and modifying and incorporating others. Providing a comprehensive overview of this community, the contributions to the book show that the legacy of the Baghdadi Jews lives on for Indians today through landmarks and monuments in Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata, and for Jews, through memories woven by members of the community residing in diverse diasporas.
Offering refreshing historical perspectives on the colonial period in India, this book will be of interest to those studying South Asian Studies, Diaspora and Ethnic Studies, Sociology, History, Jewish Studies and Asian Religion.
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Utgitt:
2021
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 204
ISBN: 9781032091662
Format: 23 x 16 cm
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Part I: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on the Baghdadi Jews under the Raj; 1 Super-diversity among the Baghdadi
Jews of India, Shalva Weil; 2 Negotiating Identity in a Changing World: From British Colonialism to Indian Independence,
Joan G. Roland; Part II: Diversified Religious Life; 3 The Baghdadi Synagogues of India: Their Design Roots, Aesthetic and
History, Jay A. Waronker; 4 Music Traditions in the Baghdadi Jewish Communities of Bombay and Poona: Continuity, New Horizons,
Sara Manasseh; Part III: The Baghdadis of Maharashtra: Formal and Informal Education; 5 Jewish Schools, Their Entrepreneurs
and Their Educational Landscape in Bombay, Shaul Sapir; 6 Jewish Sports and Sectarianism in Pre-independence Bombay, Nathan
Marcus; Part IV: The Baghdadis of Bengal: Formal and Informal Education; 7 Muslim Students in the Jewish Girls' School, Kolkata:
A Changed Legacy, Jael Silliman; 8 Sport, Gender and Socialisation: The Experience of Jewish and Parsee Women in Colonial
and Post-colonial Bengal, Suparna Ghosh Bhattacharya; Part V: 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 Nineteenth Century, Zvi Yehuda; 10 Archival
Cartographies: Multi-Layering Calcutta's Baghdadi Jewish Histories, Jael Silliman
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.