Baghdadi Jews

Diasporic narratives and migrant memories in 'The Teak Almirah' by Indian Jewish author Jael Silliman

Diasporic literature posits itself as a space of vision in which to prompt ruptures, go beyond prescriptive and proscriptive limits, and imagine new ways to identify and belong (Parmar 2016). This is what makes the novels by Jael Silliman worth reading and apprehending in the contested and complex scenario of contemporary Indian literatures in English, further allowing an analysis of the role of English in constructing historically complex communities of readers in a transnational and transcultural perspective.

Calcutta Kosher and The man with many hats. Recasting the Baghdadi Jews as a ‘new’ minority in contemporary India

Questo saggio analizza alcune opere letterarie di scrittrici contemporanee appartenenti alla comunità degli Ebrei Baghdadi di Calcutta, la più piccola delle comunità di religione ebraica dell’India, giunta nel Subcontinente alla fine del diciottesimo secolo.

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