Shalva Weil

Dr. Shalva Weil is a Senior Researcher at The Research Institute for Innovation and Education at the Hebrew University. She focuses on Indian Jewry, Ethiopian Jewry, and the Ten Lost Tribes and specializes in qualitative methods, violence, gender, ethnicity, education, religion, and migration.^[1]

Education

Shalva Weil was born in London and studied sociology (B.A. Hons.) at the London School of Economics. She received an M.A. at the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies, Sussex University, on a double identity conflict among Bene Israel Indian Jews in Britain, supervised by the psychologist Prof. Marie Jahoda. She then went on to study for a D. Phil. in the Social Anthropology department at Sussex University, under the supervision of Prof. A.L. Epstein. Her doctoral thesis on The Persistence of Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity among the Bene Israel Indian Jews in Israel (1977) was based on three years' fieldwork among the Bene Israel in the town of Lod.^[1]

Areas of focus

Indian Jewry

Shalva Weil has published widely on the Bene Israel, Cochin Jews, Baghdadi Jews, and the Shinlung (“Bnei Menasseh”). She is a co-editor (with Nathan Katz, Ranabir Chakravarti and Braj M. Sinha) of Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007); and co-editor (with David Shulman) of Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India (Delhi: Oxford University Press 2008).

Dr. Weil is the founding Chairperson (with Zubin Mehta as President) of the Israel-India Cultural Association,^[2] the official friendship association between the two countries. Today, she is a board member of the new Israel-India Friendship Association. In 1991, she curated an exhibition at Beth Hatefutsoth: the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora on the Ten Lost Tribes,^[3] in which India was prominently featured. In 1996, she was invited by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to attend the India Studies Symposium,^[4] where she lectured on Co-Existence in India: the Case of the Cochin Jews. In 2002, she organised an international conference on Indo-Judaic studies at Oxford University,^[4] a field in which she is a forerunner. She is on the editorial board of Indian and international journals, including the International Journal of Hindu Studies and the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies.^[2] In 2006, she co-curated an exhibition on the Jews of Chendamangalam in the newly restored village synagogue in Kerala.^[5] Today, she is involved in the restoration of the Cochin Jewish synagogue in Parur, and ancient contacts with Muziris.

In March 2013, Dr. Weil lectured and co-organized a conference in Eilat, Israel and Aqaba, Jordan on ancient trade in the Red Sea.^[6] In May 2013, Dr. Weil was invited to lecture at Stanford University on the Kirtan among Indian Jews,^[7] followed by lectures in the Department of South Asian Studies at Santa Barbara University,^[8] and a lecture at the Magnes Museum at Berkeley University at California on the reconstruction of synagogues in Kerala.^[9]

Ethiopian Jewry

Dr. Weil's studies on Ethiopian Jews have been commissioned by government ministries: on religion, one-parent families, education and leadership, and recently on femicide. In 2005, Dr. Weil was elected President of SOSTEJE (Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry)^[1] at the Addis Ababa University, and in this capacity organized international conferences on the Beta Israel: in Florence, Italy and in Gondar, Ethiopia, as well as writing regular newsletters on the study of Ethiopian Jewry until her resignation in 2012. She is the editor of a book and many scientific articles on Ethiopian Jews, as well as a recent volume (together with Emanuela Trevisan Semi) Beta Israel: the Jews of Ethiopia and Beyond (Venice: Cafoscarini, 2011). For 12 years, she directed an outreach program to promote excellence in education among Ethiopian Jews in Israel.

Femicide

She wrote a report in 2009 for the Israeli Ministry of Absorption on wife-murder among Ethiopian immigrants. The report was suppressed for two years after being submitted.^[10] In 2012, she initiated a proposal to COST to prevent femicide in Europe. This European Union-funded project began in June 2013 and she was elected the Chair of the Action^[11] and the Hebrew University was selected as the grant-holding institution. The second Management Committee meeting was held in Jerusalem in October 2013 followed by a Working Group conference on Definitions of Femicide.

Ten Lost Tribes

Dr. Weil has published extensively on the Ten Lost Tribes and in particular, the Beta Israel and the Bene Israel, but also on Judaising groups all over Africa, China and elsewhere. In 1991, she curated an exhibition at Beth Hatefutsoth: the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora on the Ten Lost Tribes entitled "Beyond the Sambatyon: the Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes".^[12] She is on the international board of ISSAJ [International Society for the Study of African Jewry].^[13]

Qualitative Methods

Dr. Shalva Weil has specialized in Qualitative Methods utilizing diverse methodological tools such as the mapping tool, diaries, interviews, focus groups, and life histories. She documented violence in schools in a joint Israeli-Palestinian project. In 2013 she worked together with Dr. Ammon Karmon on a qualitative study of pedagogic change in schools commissioned by Avnei Rosha.

In 2010, she interviewed Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt, the last interview before he passed away.^[14] In addition, in her capacity as editor of European Sociologist, she interviewed Prof. Zygmunt Bauman.^[15] She coordinated the European Sociological Association (ESA) Qualitative Methods Research Network (2005-7),^[16] taught methods at the ESA's Summer School in Finland in 2010, and collaborated with colleagues to co-chair a European Science Foundation workshop on the legitimacy of qualitative methods. From 2007-11, she served as a member of the ESA Executive Committee.

Publications

Books edited

1. 1984 From Cochin to Israel, Jerusalem: Kumu Berina. (Hebrew)
2. 1995 'Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight', Israel Social Science Research, 10(2).
3. 1997 Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew. See no.2)
4. 1999 Roots and Routes: Ethnicity and Migration in Global Perspective, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University.
5. 2001 Bibliography of Ethiopian Jewry, Paris: SOSTEJE (Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry).
6. 2004 Bibliography of Ethiopian Jewry, Addis Abeba: SOSTEJE (Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry).
7. Katz N., Chakravarti, R., Sinha, B. M. and Weil, S. 2007 Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin, New York and Basingstoke, England: Palgrave-Macmillan Press.
8. Shulman, D. and Weil, S. 2008 Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
9. 2009 (Third reprint) India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; second reprint 2004].
10. Trevisan Semi, E. and Weil, S. 2011 Beta Israel: the Jews of Ethiopia and Beyond, Venice: Cafoscarini.

Monographs

1. 1985 The Dynamics of Community Schools in Israel: an Ethnography, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew)
2. 1989 The Religious Beliefs and Practices of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, 2nd edn, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew)
3. 1991a One-Parent Families among Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew)
4. 1991b The Changing Religious Tradition of Ethiopian Jews in Israel: a Teachers’ Guide, Jerusalem: The Ministry of Education & Culture & NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew)
5. 1997 Ethiopian High School Graduates of the Educational System in Israel, 1987-1989: Past, Present and Future, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew)
6. 2000a India, The Larger Immigrations from Eastern Countries, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute and the Ministry of Education. (Hebrew)
7. Roer-Strier, D (PI), Weil, S. (PI). 2000b The Unique and the Unifying: Religious and Secular Schoolchildren and their Parents at Keshet School. Jerusalem: The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University. (Hebrew)

Chapters in collections

1. 1982 “Contacts Between the Bene Israel and the Holy Land from the Eighth Century B.C.E. until 1948: An Ethno-historical Perspective,” in I. Ben-Ami ed., The Sephardi & Oriental Jewish Heritage, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1982, pp. 165–178.
2. 1985a 'Ethnicity and the Family: A Q-study of Israeli Children' in Alex Weingrod (ed.) Studies in Israeli Ethnicity: After the Ingathering, New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 81–103.
3. 1985b 'Interpersonal Relations & Uses of Language among Bene Israel in Israel' in Shlomo Deshen and Moshe Shokeid (eds.) Oriental Jews, Jerusalem: Schocken, pp. 306–311. (Hebrew. See Article no.3&4)
4. 1986a 'An Overview of Research on the Bene Israel' in Tim Timberg (ed.) The Jews of India, Delhi: Vikas Publication, pp. 12–27.
5. 1986b 'Symmetry Between Christians And Jews In India: The Cnanite Christians And The Cochin Jews Of Kerala' in Tim Timberg (ed.) The Jews of India, Delhi: Vikas Publication, pp. 177–204. (See Article no.8)
6. 1987 'Anthropology becomes Home: Home becomes Anthropology' in Anthony Jackson (ed.) Anthropology at Home, ASA Monograph No. 25, London: Tavistock Publications, pp. 196–212.
7. 1988a '"Proximal Households" as Alternatives to Joint Families in Israel' in Lea Shamgar-Handelman and Rossella Palomba (eds.) Alternative Patterns of Family Life in Modern Societies, Roma: Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche, Institute di Recerche Sulta Popolazione, pp. 87–103.
8. 1988b 'The Influence of Caste Ideology in Israel', in Meir Gottesmann (ed.) Cultural Transition: the Case of Immigrant Youth, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, pp. 150–161.
9. 1993 'Women and Language in Israel' in Yael Azmon and Dafna N. Izraeli (eds.) Women in Israel, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, pp. 363–377. (See article no.9 )
10. 1994 'Yom Kippur: the Festival of Closing the Doors' in Hananya Goodman (ed.) Between Jerusalem & Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism & Hinduism, New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 85–100.
11. 1995 'Representations of Leadership among Ethiopian Jews' in Steven Kaplan, Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi (eds.) Between Africa & Zion, Proceedings of the first International Conference of SOSTEJE, Venice, 1993, pp. 230–239. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute.
12. 1996 'Double Conversion among the "Children of Menasseh"' in Georg Pfeffer and Deepak K. Behera (eds.) Contemporary Society Tribal Studies, New Delhi: Concept, pp. 84–102.
13. 1997a 'Introduction: Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight', in Shalva Weil (ed.) Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University, pp. 7–11. (Hebrew. See article no.18)
14. 1997b 'Collective Designations and Collective Identity of Ethiopian Jews' in Shalva Weil (ed.) Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University, pp. 35–48. (Hebrew. See article no.19)
15. 1998 'Festivals and Cyclical Events of the Year', (149-160) and 'Elementary School', (174-177) in John Harrison, Rishona Wolfert and Ruth Levitov (eds.) Culture – Differences in the World and in Israel: a Reader in Sociology for Junior High Schools, University of Tel-Aviv: Institute of Social Research and Ministry of Education, Pedagogic Administration. (Hebrew. See monograph no.2)
16. 1999a 'Collective Rights and Perceived Inequality: The Case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel', in Tim Allen and John Eade (eds.) Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict, The Hague, London, and Boston: Kluwer Law International, pp. 127–144.
17. 1999b 'From Persecution to Freedom: Central European Jewish Refugees and their Jewish Host Communities in India', in Anil Bhatti and Johannes H. Voigt (eds.) Jewish Exile in India 1933-1945, New Delhi: Manohar and Max Mueller Bhavan, pp. 64–84.
18. 1999c 'The Life and Death of Solomon Isaac', in Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi (eds.) The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on the Ethiopian Jews, London: Curzon Press, pp. 40–49.
19. 1999d 'Ethnicity and Migration in Global Perspective', in Shalva Weil (ed.) Roots and Routes, Jerusalem: Magnes, pp. 11–22. (See book no.4).
20. 2001 'The Jewish Communities of India', in Avshalom Mizrachi and Aharon Ben-David (eds.) The Tribes-Evidence of Israel: Exile, Immigrations, Absorption, Contribution and Integration, Netanya: Association for Society and Culture, Documentation and Research, pp. 272–281. (Hebrew)
21. 2005a 'Motherland and Fatherland as Dichotomous Diasporas: the Case of the Bene Israel' in Lisa Anteby, William Berthomiere and Gabriel Sheffer (eds.) Les Diasporas 2000 ans d'histoire, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 91–99.
22. 2005b 'Ethiopian Jewish Women-Changes and Trends in Cross-National Migration' in Malka Shabtay and Lea Kacen (eds.) Mulalem: Ethiopian Women and Girls in Spaces, Worlds and Journeys between Cultures, Modyin: Leshon Zacha, pp. 19–33. (Hebrew. See article no.28)
23. 2005c 'Abraham Adgeh: The Perfect English Gentleman' in Emanuela Trevisan-Semi and Tudor Parfitt (eds.) Jews of Ethiopia, The Birth of an Elite, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 101–111.
24. 2006 'Indian Judaic Tradition' in Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (eds.) Religions in South Asia, London: Palgrave Publishers, pp. 169–183.
25. 2007a 'The Earth's Inhabitants Scattered: The Relationship between Ethnicity and Diaspora' in Ray Hutchinson and Jerome Krase (eds.) Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World, Oxford, Amsterdam, and San Diego: Elsevier, pp. 1–13.
26. 2007b '"It's good that I was at a dormitory school - but I wouldn't have chosen to be there": attitudes of Ethiopian immigrants to the educational tracks in which they studied' in Pnina Peri (ed.) Education in Multi-Cultured Society, Jerusalem: Carmel, pp. 173–186. (Hebrew. See monograph no.5)
27. 2007c 'On Origins, the Arts and Transformed Identities: Foci of Research into the Bene Israel' in Nathan Katz, Ranabir Chakravarti, Braj M. Sinha and Shalva Weil (eds) Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin, New York and Basingstoke, England: Palgrave-Macmillan Press, pp. 147–157.
28. 2008a 'Zionism among Ethiopian Jews' in Hagar Salamon (ed.) Jewish Communities in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Ethiopia, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, pp. 187–200. (Hebrew)
29. 2008b (with Shulman, D.), 'Prelude: The Israeli Quest for India' in David Shulman and Shalva Weil (eds.) Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–7. (See book no.8)
30. 2008c 'Esther David: The Bene Israel Novelist who Grew Up with a Tiger' in David Shulman and Shalva Weil (eds.) Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 232–253. (See book no. 8)
31. 2009a 'The Heritage and Legacy of Indian Jews' in Shalva Weil (ed.) India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002], pp. 8–21. (See book no. 9)
32. 2009b 'Bene Israel Rites and Routines' in Shalva Weil (ed.) India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002], pp. 78–89. Reprinted in Marg: A Magazine of The Arts, 54(2): 26-37. (See book no. 9)
33. 2009c 'Beta Israel Students Who Studied Abroad 1905-1935' in: Svein, Ege, Aspen, Harald and Bekele, Shiferaw (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Trondheim, pp. 209–217.
34. 2011a "Introduction", in Emanuela Trevisan Semi and Shalva Weil (eds.) Beta Israel: the Jews of Ethiopia and Beyond, Venice: Cafoscarini Press, pp. 7–10. (See book no. 10)
35. 2011b "Mikael Aragawi: Christian Missionary among the Beta Israel", in Emanuela Trevisan Semi and Shalva Weil (eds.) Beta Israel: the Jews of Ethiopia and Beyond, Venice: Cafoscarini Press, pp. 147–158. (See book no. 10)
36. 2011c "Coming of age in Jewish communities in India: the Baghdadis and the Bene Israel", in Barbara Vinick and Shulamith Reinharz (eds.) Today I am a Woman: Bat Mitzvah around the World, Indiana University Press, pp. 35–38.
37. 2012a "Ethiopian Jews: the Heterogeneity of a Group", in Grisaru, Nimrod and Witztum, Eliezer Cultural, Social and Clinical Perspectives on Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel, Beersheba: Ben-Gurion University Press, pp. 1–17.
38. 2012b "Longing for Jerusalem Among the Beta Israel of Ethiopia", in Edith Bruder and Tudor Parfitt (eds.) African Zion: Studies in Black Judaism, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 204–217.
39. 2012c 'I am a teacher and beautiful: the feminization of the teaching profession in the Ethiopian community in Israel', in Pnina Morag- Talmon and Yael Atzmon (eds) Immigrant Women in Israeli Society, Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, pp. 207–223. (Hebrew)

Articles

1. 1974 'Bene Israel in Britain', New Community 3(1-2): 87-91.
2. 1977a 'Names and Identity among the Bene Israel', Ethnic Groups 1(3): 201-219.
3. 1977b 'Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel', International Journal of the Sociology of Language 13: 71-85.
4. 1977c 'Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel', Linguistics 193: 71-85. (See no. 3).
5. 1980a 'The State of Research into Bene Israel Indian Jews', Indian Economic and Social History Review 17(4): 397-408.
6. 1980b 'Literature of Jews in India', in Heda Jason (ed.) Journal of Indian Folkloristics 3(5-6): 58-71.
7. 1981 'Family Perceptions among Pre-Adolescent Children in Israel', (with Benbenishty, R.), in Floyd Martinson (ed.) Journal of Comparative Family Studies 12(1): 51-61.
8. 1982 'Symmetry between Christians and Jews in India: the Cnanite Christians and the Cochin Jews of Kerala', Contributions to Indian Sociology 16(2): 175-196.
9. 1983a 'Women & Language in Israel', International Journal of the Sociology of Language 41:77-91.
10. 1983b 'The Effect of Ethnic Origin on Children’s Perceptions of their Families', Journal of Comparative Family Studies 14(3): 347-366.
11. 1986 'The Language & Ritual of Socialization: Birthday Parties in a Kindergarten Context' Man (N.S.) 21: 329-341.
12. 1987a 'An Elegy in Amharic on Dr. Faitlovitch' Pe’amim 33: 125-127. (Hebrew)
13. 1987b 'In Memoriam: Yona Bogale' Pe’amim 33: 140-144. (Hebrew)
14. 1989 'Ethiopian Jews in Israel: A Survey of Research & Documentation', Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Review 2(1-2): 28-32.
15. 1991 'Beyond the Sambatyon: the Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes', Ariel 85-86: 25-31.
16. 1994 'The Secular & Religious Elite among the Bene Israel Jews in India', Pe’amim 60: 49-63. (Hebrew).
17. 1995a '"It Is Futile to Trust in Man": Methodological Difficulties in Studying Non-Mainstream Populations with Reference to Ethiopian Jews in Israel', Human Organisation 54(1): 1-9.
18. 1995b 'Introduction: Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight', in Shalva Weil (ed.) Israel Social Science Research 10(2): iii-viii.
19. 1995c 'Collective Designations and Collective Identity among Ethiopian Jews', in Shalva Weil (ed.) Israel Social Science Research 10(2): 25-40.
20. 1996a 'Religious Leadership vs. Secular Authority: the Case of the Bene Israel', Eastern Anthropologist 49(3- 4): 301-316.
21. 1996b 'Lisa Gilad', Anthropology Today 12(5): 25.
22. 1997a 'Religion, Blood and the Equality of Rights: The Case of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel', International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 4: 397-412.
23. 1997b 'Changing of the Guards: Leadership among Ethiopian Jews in Israel', Journal of Social Studies 1(4): 301-307.
24. 1999a 'An Ethnographic Encounter', Anthropology and Humanism 24(2): 189.
25. 1999b 'Flora Samuel', Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies 1(2): 150-151.
26. Roer-Strier, D. (PI), Weil, S. (PI) and Adan, H. (S). 2003a 'The Unique and the Unifying: Children's Narratives of Cultural Differences', European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 11(1): 105-124.
27. 2003b 'Dual Conversion Among the Shinlung of North-East India', Studies of Tribes and Tribals 1(1): 43-57.
28. 2004a 'Ethiopian Jewish Women: Trends and Transformations in the Context of Trans-National Change', Nashim 8: 73-86.
29. 2004b 'Lost Israelites from North-East India: Re-Traditionalisation and Conversion among the Shinlung from the Indo-Burmese Borderlands', The Anthropologist 6(3): 219-233.
30. 2005a 'Qualitative Methods in Israel', Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal] 6(3): Art. 46.^[17]
31. 2005b 'The Impact of Hindu-Jewish Studies in Israel, or, The Salience of Spirituality', Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies 7: 5-11.
32. 2006a 'Tadesse Yacob of Cairo and Addis Abeba', International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 2(1-2): 233-243.
33. 2006b '"Today is Purim": A Cochin Jewish Song in Hebrew', TAPASAM Journal: Quarterly Journal for Kerala Studies 1(3): 575-588.
34. 2007 'Is There a "Legimitation Crisis" in Qualitative Methods?' Conference Essay: ESF Exploratory Workshop on Improving the Quality of Qualitative Research [31 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 9(2): Art. 6,^[18]
35. 2009 'The Place of Alwaye in Modern Cochin Jewish History', Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 8 (3): 319-335.
36. 2010a "Los límites de la colaboración: dilemas metodológicos en un proyecto de investigación conjunto de israelíes y palestinos" ("The Limits Of Collaboration: Methodological Dilemmas In A Joint Israeli-Palestinian Research Project"), Revista de Antropología Social 19:253-266. (Spanish)
37. 2010b "On Multiple Modernities, Civilizations and Ancient Judaism: an Interview with Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt", European Societies 12 (4): 451-465.
38. 2012 "The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context", Journal of Comparative Family Studies 43 (1): 71-80

Foreword

2011 Foreword. In: Quirin, James The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920. California: Tsehai Publishers.

Book reviews in scientific journals

1. 1981 Childminder by Brian Jackson and Sonia Jackson, reviewed in Journal of Marriage & the Family 43(1): 227-229.
2. 1985 The Bene Israel in India: Some Studies by Benjamin J. Israel, reviewed in Asian & African Studies 19(1): 131-132.
3. 1989 Music, Ritual & Falasha History by Kay Kaufman Shelemay, reviewed in Journal of Religion in Africa 19(3): 276-280.
4. 1995 Surviving Salvation by Ruth Westheimer and Steve Kaplan, Journal of Religion in Africa 25(1): 111-112.
5. 1997 Veda and Torah by Barbara Holdrege, reviewed in International Journal of Hindu Studies 1(2): 427-428.
6. 1998a Jews of the Raj by Mavis Hyman reviewed in Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies 1(1): 105-107.
7. 1998b Contemporary Society: Childhood and Complex Order by Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera (eds.), reviewed in Journal of Social Studies 2(4): 289-290.
8. 1999 The Inter-Cultural Experience- a Reader in Anthropology by Moshe Shokeid and Shlomo Deshen (eds.), reviewed in Pe’amim 77: 152-154. (Hebrew)
9. 2001a The Jews of India by Benjamin J. Israel reviewed in Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies 4: 119-122.
10. 2001b The Jews of India by Benjamin J. Israel reviewed in Biblio: A Review of Books, New Delhi, Manohar 6(9-10): 18-9.
11. 2002 Letters to Auntie Fori by Martin Gilbert reviewed in Biblio: A Review of Books, New Delhi: Manohar.
12. 2003a The Book of Esther by Esther David, reviewed in Biblio: A Review of Books, New Delhi: Manohar, 26.
13. 2003b Roots and Rituals by Tom Dekker, John Helsloot, Carla Wijers (eds.) reviewed in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 29(5): 903.
14. 2004a Saving the Lost Tribe: The Rescue and Redemption of the Ethiopian Jews by Asher Naim, reviewed in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, An Annual, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 20: 385-387.
15. 2004b After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark by Andrew Buckser, reviewed in Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 10(3): 739-40.
16. 2005 Child Rearing in America: Challenges Facing parents with Young Children, by Neal Halfon, Kathyrn Taaffe McLearn and Mark A. Schuster (eds.), reviewed in Journal of Comparative Family Studies 36(1): 155-156.
17. 2006 Using Diaries for Social Research, by Andy Alaszewski, reviewed in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal], 7(4), Art. 25^[19]
18. 2007 Operation Solomon by Stephen Spector, reviewed in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, an Annual, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 22: 341-343.
19. Eberle T, Flick, U. and Weil, S. 2008a Book Review Symposium, An Introduction to Qualitative Research by Uwe Flick and The Sage Qualitative Research Kit edited by Uwe Flick, reviewed in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(3), 28^[20]
20. 2008b Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places by Andre Levy and Alex Weingrod (eds.), reviewed in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 14: 685-6.
21. 2010a Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethiopia by Emanuela Trevisan Semi, (London: Vallentine and Mitchell, 2007) reviewed in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, "The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum", Jonathan Frankel and Ezra Mendelsohn (eds.) (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press) 24: 272-274.
22. 2010b Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities: perspectives from Israel and Germany by Al-haj, Majid & Rosemarie Mielke (eds.) (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007) reviewed in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 16: 654-701.
23. 2011 The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity by Edith Bruder (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) reviewed in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press) 25:155-156.
24. (accepted for publication) Shbahoth-Songs of Praise in the Babylonian Jewish Tradition by Sara Manasseh (Surrey, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012) reviewed in Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies.

Encyclopedia entries

1. 1989 'Bene Israel' (pp. 109–110); 'Lost Tribes' (pp. 714–715), in Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.) Encyclopedia of Judaism, Jerusalem Publishing House.
2. 1992 'Bene Israel' (3(South Asia): 27-29); 'Cochin Jews' (3(South Asia): 71-73), in Paul Hockings (ed.) Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall & Co.
3. 1994 'India, Zionism In'; 'Indian Jews in Israel', in Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, Associated University Presses, pp. 651–653.
4. 1996 'Ethiopian Jews' (2: 624-5); 'Bene Israel' (1: 350), in Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar and Richard W. Bulliet (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, New York: Macmillan.
5. 1997 'Bene Israel', in R.J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (Eds. in Chief) The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 113.
6. 1999 'Bene Israel'; 'Cochin Jews', Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem, CD-Rom.
7. 2000 'Ethiopia', in Michael Terry (ed.) Reader’s Guide to Judaism, New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 170–1.
8. 2002 'Cochin Jews', in Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Ian Skoggard (eds.) Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 78–80.
9. 2003 'Abraham Adgeh', in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1: 48.
10. 2004 'Judaism-South Asia', in David Levinson and Karen Christensen (eds.) Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 3: 284-286.
11. 2005 'Gweshan', in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2: 940.
12. 2006 'Ethiopian Jewish Women', in Moshe Shalvi (ed.) Jewish Women-A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing.
13. 2007 'Bene Israel' (3: 335-339); 'Cochin Jews', in Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.) Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1st edition, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, CD-Rom.
14. 2008a 'Jews in Ethiopia' (2: 467-475); 'Jews in India' (3: 1204-1212); 'The Jews of Pakistan' (3: 1228-1230); 'The Pathans of Afghanistan and their Israelite Status' (3: 1230-1231); in M. Avrum Erlich (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC CLIO.
15. 2008b 'Mikael Aragawi', in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 3: 961-962.
16. 2010a 'Bombay'; 'Calcutta'; 'India'; 'Pakistan'; in Norman A. Stillman (ed.) Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Leiden:Brill.^{[21][22][23][24]}
17. 2010b 'Salomon Yeshaq' (499-500); 'Radai' (321); 'Wurmbrand, Max' (1196-1197); 'Walaqa' (1082-1083); 'Stern, Henry' (749-750); 'Tadesse, Yaqob' (810); 'Taamerat Ammanuel' (796-797); in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 4.
18. 2011a 'Bene Israel', in Adele Berlin (Ed. in Chief) Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 131.
19. 2011b 'Bene Israel' (59); 'Cochin Jews' (107); 'Ethiopian Jews' (165-166); 'India (Jews of)' (273-274); 'Ten Lost Tribes' (616), in Judith Baskin (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, New York: Cambridge University Press.
20. 2013b "Jews of India" (1: 255-258); "Ten Lost Tribes" (2: 542-543), in Raphael Patai and Haya Bar Itzhak (eds.) Jewish Folklore and Traditions: A Multicultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Inc.
21. 2013c (forthcoming) “Indian Jews”, in David Biale (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, New York: Oxford University Press.
22. (accepted for publication) ‘Hebrew in India’, in Geoffrey Kahn (ed.) Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Leiden:Brill.
23. (accepted for publication) 'Yona Bogale', in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 5.
24. (accepted for publication) ‘Indian Jews,’ in David Biale (Ed. in Chief) Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, New York: Oxford University Press.

Museum catalogues

1. 1981 The Jews from the Konkan: the Bene Israel Community of India, Tel-Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.
2. 1989 Beta Israel: A House Divided, Binghamton State University of New York.
3. 1991 Beyond the Sambatyon: the Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes, Tel-Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
4. 2001 Musical Traditions of the Bene Israel Community (to accompany CD- Rom), Tel-Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.
5. 2012 "Kalkidan Meshashe: An Ethiopian-Israeli Rapper", Culver City, California: Roberts and Tilton, in catalogue for Kehinde Wiley. The World Stage: Israel exhibition, New York: Jewish Museum.

Quasi-Academic articles-since 2008 alone

1. 2008a "A rich history now stained with blood", The Jerusalem Post, December 1.
2. *2008b "The Chennamangalam Jews: A village community", Welcome Kerala 8(1), pp. 11–12.
3. *2009a Samuel Hallegua: Obituary, The Jerusalem Post, September 24.
4. *2009b "Kerala to restore 400-year-old Indian synagogue", The Jerusalem Post.
5. *2010a "A Revival of Jewish Heritage on the Indian Tourism Trail", Jerusalem Post Magazine, July 16. pp. 34–36.
6. *2010b "Eine Geschichte der friedlichen Koexistenz", Aufbau 10, pp. 15–17.
7. 2011a "The History and Disappearance of the Jewish Presence in Pakistan", International Relations and Security Network (ISN).^[25]
8. 2011b "The Tomb of Rachel - The Bene Israel Connection: Wanderers, emissaries, matriarchs and a holy site", Asian Jewish Life.^[26]
9. *2011c "In an Ancient Land: Trade and synagogues in south India", Asian Jewish Life.^[27]
10. 2011d "Tomb or Mosque? Contesting Historical Memory", International Relations and Security Network (ISN).^[28]
11. 2011e "Via India to Israel: The Migrations of the Bnei Menashe", International Relations and Security Network (ISN).^[29]
12. 2012a “A History of The Parur Synagogue: Trial by fire, inquisition and neglect”, Asian Jewish Life, 10:14-16.^[30]
13. 2012b “The Unknown Jews of Bangladesh: Fragments of an Elusive Community”, Asian Jewish Life, 8:16-18.^[31]

References

External links

• Cochinsyn.com
• Cost.eu
• Ncjw.org