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The entire set of sixteen essays in Jews and India explore a particular interaction and mutual influence between Jews and India over the past two millennia. Collectively, we discover a pattern of uniquely symmetrical relations between Jews and their host culture. Unlike in the Christian and Islamic countries, Jews were always honored and treated in India like respected guests. We all come to know ourselves through our reflections in the eyes of others, and rather than hostility and a condescending attitude, in India, Jews always enjoyed respect, hospitality, and affection. These chapters seek to answer the theoretical question as to what Jews and Judaism looked like when viewed with a 'good eye'. Conversely, we also learn how the world sees Jews who have always enjoyed respect and were made welcome. The first section of the book analyzes Jewish communities in Kochi, especially, but also the Bene Israelis and Baghdadis. Following is a section of stories about individual Jewish lives in India - mystics, merchants, and soldiers.
Contents
List of Illustrations 7
Foreword by Vasudha Narayanan 11
Introduction 19
Part One: Indian Jewish Communities
1. The Historical Traditions of the Jews of Kochi 31
2. The Ritual Enactments of the Cochini Jews: The Powers of Purity and Nobility
(with Ellen S. Goldberg) 57
3. The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation 96
4 'Baghdadi' Jews in India, Burma, and Malaysia 122
5. The Study of Jewish Communities in India: The State of the Art 140
Part Two: Individual Jewish Lives in India
6. The Identity of a Mystic: The Case of Sa'id Sarmad a Jewish-Yogi-Sufi Courtier of the Mughals 167
7. Kabbalists, Saints, and Village Deities and the Acculturation of Jewish Communities in India 187
8. Jewish 'Apartheid' and a Jewish Gandhi
(with Ellen S. Goldberg) 204
9. 'By Us, This is Forbidden': A Tale of Jewish Ethics and Indian Spices
(with Zvi Zohar) 248
10. An Orthodox American Jewish Soldier in India during World War II
(with Ellen S. Goldberg) 258
Part Three: Interreligious Dialogues
11. The Dalai Lama's Jewish Secret 269
12. A Tibetan-language History of Israel by Jamyang Norbu 287
13. A Survey of Buddhist-Jewish Relations 299
14. Maurice Friedman's Dialogue with Asian Religions 328
15. How the Hindu-Jewish Encounter Reconfigures Interreligious Dialogue 349
16. An Introduction to Judaism for Hindus 368
Index 395
Presentation and Publication Record 413
