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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Yulia Egorova |
ISBN: | 9780199929214 0199929211 |
OCLC Number: | 827261045 |
Description: | x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Re-discovering the past of Jewish Dalits -- The Bene Ephraim between Judaism(s) -- All of us -- The children of Israel -- The other Bene Ephraim. |
Responsibility: | by Yulia Egorova and Shahid Perwez. |
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The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India by Yulia Egorova and Shahid Perwez could be the remarkable tale of the search and discovery of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel in India. Or at least that is what the tribe of the Bene Ephraim and its Israeli discoverers (and now the state of Israel) want to claim. Yulia Egorova and Shahid Perwez's extraordinarily careful and respectful account of how the Bene Ephraim become Jewish, how theybegin in their lives to fulfill the expectations of those still seeking the Lost Tribes to fulfill the Biblical prophecy of the ingathering of the Jews, is not only brilliant field anthropology but a compelling account of how parallel needs create complex and real identities. A must have for those inJewish Studies and beyond. * Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University * Read more...


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- Madigas -- India -- Andhra Pradesh.
- Bene Ephraim.
- Dalits -- India -- Guntūr (District)
- Lost tribes of Israel.
- Jews -- India -- Guntūr (District)
- Guntūr (India : District) -- Ethnic relations.
- Religion -- history.
- Social Class -- history.
- Social Mobility.
- Ethnic Groups -- history.
- Dalits.
- Ethnic relations.
- Jews.
- Madigas.
- India -- Andhra Pradesh.
- India -- Guntūr (District)
- Juden.
- Paria.
- Indien -- Süd.
- Andhra Pradesh.
- Distrikt Guntur.
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