1st Edition
The Baghdadi Jews in India Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity
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
Biography
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.
