Because I didn't know who I was, I didn't know I had the right to claim all of myself.
It was a tradition for me to start the week with curry at my grandmother's house, then go to synagogue for...
Rahel Musleah was born in Calcutta, India, to a family whose lineage can be traced back to Baghdad in the 17th century. This lady is going to lead you on a very interesting tour of Jewish India that incorporates...
Malayalam Zionist songs, which incorporate melodies and rhetoric from Indian cinema and political music from the twentieth century, are a noteworthy example of Jewish integration and contribution to Kerala's diverse culture. Kerala Jews composed songs in Malayalam right up...
This article examines the Babylonian Jews' religious music repertory (liturgical and paraliturgical) in the port city of Bombay (now Mumbai) in western India, based mostly on information gathered from informants in the mid-1980s in Bombay and the United Kingdom....
From India to Israel, Making Beautiful Music
Zubin Mehta is on the phone with an old buddy for the first few minutes of our encounter (who, it turns out, is a grandson of...