Jewish Encounter with Hinduism

Alon Goshen-Gottstein is Executive Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, Israel.

• Introduction 1. Situating the Project - Personal and Collective Dimensions 2. The Hindu-Jewish Encounter - The Present Context 3. The Jews of India - What Can We Learn from Them? 4. Sarmad the Jew - A Precursor of the Encounter 5. Judaism(s) and Hinduism(s) 6. Judaism and Hinduism - Insights from the Comparative Study of Religion 7. The Passage to India, The Quest for Spirituality 8. Saints - Encountering the Divine in Humanity 9. The Wisdom of India - Ancient Images and Contemporary Challenges 10. The Encounter Within: Hinduism and Configurations of Jewish Identity 11. The Encounter Becomes Official: Hindu-Jewish Summits 12. Hinduism and a Jewish Theology of Religions 13. Summary and a Personal Epilogue

“This book by Alon Goshen-Gottstein is a wonderful contribution, as it comes at the right time – when awareness about pluralism and its effects is continuing to increase, especially in the Western context. … I feature this book because I found it enlightening.” (Lefrandy Praditya, Current Dialogue, Vol. 74 (5), December, 2022)'Alon Goshen-Gottstein is an important, world class pioneer in developing Judaism's approach to other religions. In this book, he gives us deeper insight into Hinduism and Judaism. This book will help enable readers to connect to and learn from one of the oldest religions in human history. Such understanding is essential to the credibility and standing of Judaism as a world religion.'- Irving Greenberg