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

Author:   Shalva Weil (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367203252


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   16 July 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Shalva Weil (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780367203252


ISBN 10:   0367203251
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   16 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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; 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

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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.

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