Shalom India Housing Society

Shalom India Housing Society PDF Author: Esther David
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Set in India, these tales are of Hindus and Muslims and . . . Jews? Oy vay!

Shalom India Housing Society

Shalom India Housing Society PDF Author: Esther David
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Set in India, these tales are of Hindus and Muslims and . . . Jews? Oy vay!

Rajmahal (Large Print 16pt)

Rajmahal (Large Print 16pt) PDF Author: Kamalini Sengupta
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459619307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Book Description
Marriages, affairs, suicides, duplicitous relations, second chances, murder, madness, and true love - Rajmahal is a beautifully crafted tale of families brought together in an unusual Bengali house over a century of turbulent changes. Within the walls of this stately home, a melting pot of tenants, alive and dead, new generations struggle to come to grips with the social, economic, and intellectual forces working in India as it moves from the British Raj to independence. Their intertwined fortunes and personal battles become a mirror of the struggle for possession of the country's future.

Bombay Brides

Bombay Brides PDF Author: Esther David
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9352779460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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When Juliet and Romiel get married and relocate to Israel, they rent out their Apartment 107 in Ahmedabad's Shalom India Housing Society to Jews. Each character who inhabits the house has a story to tell: about run-ins with the other residents, the diminishing community of Jews, cross-cultural conflicts, and the difficulty of choosing between India and Israel. Prophet Elijah, whom the Bene Israel Jews of western India believe in, plays an important role in their lives, appearing at critical or amusing moments and wreaking havoc with his mischief, but ensuring that ultimately peace prevails. Bombay Brides - as most Jewish men of Ahmedabad are married to women from Mumbai - is drawn from Jewish homes in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata and Alibaug. This is a story about home, heritage, rites, rituals, roots and what it means to be one of the last survivng members of a community in a vast multi-cultural country like India.

The Walled City

The Walled City PDF Author: Esther David
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815607502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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This novel traces the rigid circumscribed lives of three generations of women in an extended Jewish family in the walled Indian city of Ahmedabad.

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Songs My Mother Taught Me PDF Author: Wakako Yamauchi
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558610866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
Focuses on the Japanese-American experience in the U.S., including their internment during World War II and their efforts to be accepted into the American mainstream.

Bene Appetit

Bene Appetit PDF Author: Esther David
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9353579589
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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The Jewish community in India comprises a tiny but important part of the population. There are around five thousand Jews and five Jewish communities in India, but they are fast diminishing in number. Intrigued by the common thread that binds the Indian Jews as a whole despite their living in different parts of the country, Esther David explores the lifestyle and cuisine of the Jews in every region, from the Bene Israelis of western India to the Bene Menashes of the Northeast, the Bene Ephraims of Andhra Pradesh, the Baghdadi Jews of Kolkata and the Kochi Jews. She discovers that while they all follow the strict Jewish dietary laws, they have also adapted to the local cuisine. Some have even turned vegetarian! Extensively researched, with heartwarming anecdotes and mouthwatering recipes, Bene Appetit offers a holistic portrait of a little-known community.

Transforming Japan

Transforming Japan PDF Author: Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558617000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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A volume of essays by Japan’s leading female scholars and activists exploring their country’s recent progressive cultural shift. When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, and sexuality. Now more than ever, the Japanese myth of a homogenous population living within traditional gender roles is being challenged. The LGBTQ population is coming out of the closet, ever-present minorities are mobilizing for change, single mothers are a growing population, and women are becoming political leaders. In Transforming Japan, Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow has gathered the most comprehensive collection of essays written by Japanese educators and researchers on the ways in which present-day Japan confronts issues of gender, sexuality, race, discrimination, power, and human rights.

Though I Get Home

Though I Get Home PDF Author: YZ Chin
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1936932172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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“A welcome read in American contemporary literature. Though I Get Home is an intimate and complex look into Malaysian culture and politics, and a reminder of the importance of art in the struggle for social justice.” —Ana Castillo, author of So Far from God and prize judge In these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: A grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains; a consort finds herself a new assignment; a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a small-town girl—and frustrated writer—transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia’s most notorious detention camp. Winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, YZ Chin’s debut reexamines the relationship between the global and the intimate. Against a backdrop of globalization, individuals buck at what seems inevitable—seeking to stake out space for the inner motivations that shift, but still persist, in the face of changing and challenging circumstances. YZ Chin was born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia. She now lives in New York, working as a software engineer by day and a writer by night.

Writing Indians and Jews

Writing Indians and Jews PDF Author: A. Guttman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137339691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Book Description
Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization.

Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution

Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution PDF Author: Agnes Smedley
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780912670447
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The Village Voice praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly... the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes."