The book concludes with a section about inter-religious dialogues between Jews and Indic faiths like Hindus, Bud dhists and Jains. Based on two thousand years of cohabitation, these old/new friendships reveal old surprises and new insights.
The book concludes with a section about inter-religious dialogues between Jews and Indic faiths like Hindus, Bud dhists and Jains. Based on two thousand years of cohabitation, these old/new friendships reveal old surprises and new insights.
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. He is the Founder Editor of the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies. His has published sixteen books; and his Who are the Jews of India? was a National Jewish Book Awards 2000 finalist and?won?the?Vak?Devi?Saraswat?Samman?Awards?2004.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations 7 * Foreword by Vasudha Narayanan 11 * Introduction 19 * Part One: Indian Jewish Communities * 1. The Historical Traditions of the Jews of Kochi 31 * 2. The Ritual Enactments of the Cochini Jews: The Powers of Purity and Nobility * (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 57 * 3. The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation 96 * 4 'Baghdadi' Jews in India, Burma, and Malaysia 122 * 5. The Study of Jewish Communities in India: The State of the Art 140 * Part Two: Individual Jewish Lives in India * 6. The Identity of a Mystic: The Case of Sa'id Sarmad a Jewish-Yogi-Sufi Courtier of the Mughals 167 * 7. Kabbalists, Saints, and Village Deities and the Acculturation of Jewish Communities in India 187 * 8. Jewish 'Apartheid' and a Jewish Gandhi * (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 204 * 9. 'By Us, This is Forbidden': A Tale of Jewish Ethics and Indian Spices * (with Zvi Zohar) 248 * 10. An Orthodox American Jewish Soldier in India during World War II * (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 258 * Part Three: Interreligious Dialogues * 11. The Dalai Lama's Jewish Secret 269 * 12. A Tibetan-language History of Israel by Jamyang Norbu 287 * 13. A Survey of Buddhist-Jewish Relations 299 * 14. Maurice Friedman's Dialogue with Asian Religions 328 * 15. How the Hindu-Jewish Encounter Reconfigures Interreligious Dialogue 349 * 16. An Introduction to Judaism for Hindus 368 * Index 395 * Presentation and Publication Record 413
* List of Illustrations 7 * Foreword by Vasudha Narayanan 11 * Introduction 19 * Part One: Indian Jewish Communities * 1. The Historical Traditions of the Jews of Kochi 31 * 2. The Ritual Enactments of the Cochini Jews: The Powers of Purity and Nobility * (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 57 * 3. The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation 96 * 4 'Baghdadi' Jews in India, Burma, and Malaysia 122 * 5. The Study of Jewish Communities in India: The State of the Art 140 * Part Two: Individual Jewish Lives in India * 6. The Identity of a Mystic: The Case of Sa'id Sarmad a Jewish-Yogi-Sufi Courtier of the Mughals 167 * 7. Kabbalists, Saints, and Village Deities and the Acculturation of Jewish Communities in India 187 * 8. Jewish 'Apartheid' and a Jewish Gandhi * (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 204 * 9. 'By Us, This is Forbidden': A Tale of Jewish Ethics and Indian Spices * (with Zvi Zohar) 248 * 10. An Orthodox American Jewish Soldier in India during World War II * (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 258 * Part Three: Interreligious Dialogues * 11. The Dalai Lama's Jewish Secret 269 * 12. A Tibetan-language History of Israel by Jamyang Norbu 287 * 13. A Survey of Buddhist-Jewish Relations 299 * 14. Maurice Friedman's Dialogue with Asian Religions 328 * 15. How the Hindu-Jewish Encounter Reconfigures Interreligious Dialogue 349 * 16. An Introduction to Judaism for Hindus 368 * Index 395 * Presentation and Publication Record 413
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