The Jews of Goa - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9389755778 ISBN 13: 9789389755770

Publisher: Primus Books, 2021

Synopsis

The Jews of Goa brings together scholars and researchers to discuss the history and legacy of the Jews and New Christians (convesos), through texts and primary documents, missionary literature and records of the Inquisitorial trials from the Lisbon and Goan archives. The volume breaks new ground in examining the early and medieval history of the Jews, with a focus on the Portuguese period after Goa became a major power centre in India. The book breaks the silence that has surrounded the Jews and New Chritians and their descendants in Goa during the past few hundred years.

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About the Author

Shalva Weil is Senior Researchers at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is also Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at UNISA, University of South Africa. She has edited/co-edited books on Indian Jews, including India's Jewish Heritage (2002); Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin (2007); Karmic Passages (2008); and The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities, and Creating Super-Diversity (2019), and has published a large number of scholarly articles on the Baghdadi Jews, Bene Israel, Cochin Jews, and Judaizing groups in India. In 2017, as GIAN Distinguished Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Shalva Weil was first to offer a course on Indian Jews at an Indian University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Primus Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9389755778
• ISBN 13: 9789389755770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Weil Shalva