Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English.
He was awarded the Sahitya...
Samuel Bak (born 12 August 1933) is a Polish-Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States.
Biography
Shmuel Bak was born in Vilna - Wilno, Poland...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions,...
This is the first book describing the roles of Western Jews in South Asian political affairs, medicine, painting, architecture and religion. A time-line summarises their contributions and those of the Indian Jews to the Indian subcontinent. Many of these...
In Hellenistic and Medieval times, Indians and Jews met in person, communicated through trade, or “imagined” each other (discussed more fully in the next chapter).
In the nineteenth century, Hindu Indians first heard of Judaism as a world religion. 74...
It is true that a significant number of Indian Jews have emigrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom since 1947, but the reasons for this population decline remain controversial. The literary works that have...
Ori Z. Soltes highlights the unique Jewish culinary traditions that typically don't appear in reporting on the community.
"Growing Up Jewish in India," a well-researched text published by Niyogi Books, contains contributions from three other authors who help tell the...
"Wow, the ladies here go to synagogue in saris!" "Does that have a Hindu flavor to it?"
This is a question Nathaniel Jhirad, a 23-year-old Indian Jew of Mumbai's Bene Israel group, is frequently asked. "You wear skirts; that is...
Nissim Ezekiel's biography has a familiar feel to it. He returned to his native city after a sojourn in the metropolis, bound to his city by complex ties: work, loves, family, and intimate knowledge of a culture to which...
In Meera Mehadevan's Shulamith, a recent Sakti novel, the dominant Hindu culture is shown to have an effect on Indian Jewish women. Shulamith, the main character in the book, has a "sense of dual fidelity" between her love for...