Jews and India

Nathan Katz, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Florida Inter­national University, where he was Director of Jewish Studies, Bhagwan Mahavir Professorship of Jain Studies, and Founding Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

• List of Illustrations 7Foreword by Vasudha Narayanan 11Introduction 19Part One: Indian Jewish Communities1. The Historical Traditions of the Jews of Kochi 312. The Ritual Enactments of the Cochini Jews: The Powers of Purity and Nobility(with Ellen S. Goldberg) 573. The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation 964 'Baghdadi' Jews in India, Burma, and Malaysia 1225. The Study of Jewish Communities in India: The State of the Art 140Part Two: Individual Jewish Lives in India6. The Identity of a Mystic: The Case of Sa'id Sarmad a Jewish-Yogi-Sufi Courtier of the Mughals 1677. Kabbalists, Saints, and Village Deities and the Acculturation of Jewish Communities in India 1878. Jewish 'Apartheid' and a Jewish Gandhi (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 2049. 'By Us, This is Forbidden': A Tale of Jewish Ethics and Indian Spices (with Zvi Zohar) 24810. An Orthodox American Jewish Soldier in India during World War II(with Ellen S. Goldberg) 258Part Three: Interreligious Dialogues11. The Dalai Lama's Jewish Secret 26912. A Tibetan-language History of Israel by Jamyang Norbu 28713. A Survey of Buddhist-Jewish Relations 29914. Maurice Friedman's Dialogue with Asian Religions 32815. How the Hindu-Jewish Encounter Reconfigures Interreligious Dialogue 34916. An Introduction to Judaism for Hindus 368Index 395Presentation and Publication Record 413