Day 1
Monday, February 16
Overview
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Itinerary
11:00
Bus transfer from the Habitat in New Delhi to OP Jindal Global
12:45 - 13:30
Conference registration & Lunch at OP Jindal Global University.
13:30 - 15:00
Young scholars’ workshop I Chair: Michal Erlich (OP Jindal Global University)
Anwesha Das (Emory University) – Mapping Medieval Gujarat through the Indian Ocean Trade Documents of the Cairo Geniza (11th-12th Centuries).
Emy Merin Joy (Central European University, Vienna) – Interreligious Dialogues and Anti-Jewish Polemics in Early Modern Malabar (16th–17th Centuries).
Lija Mary Kambakkaran Joseph (Leiden University) – Between Black and
White: Maritime Diasporas, and the Formation of Racial Identity Among the Jews of Malabar in the Eighteenth Century.
Sayan Lodh (Presidency University in Kolkata) – Two Pearls of Jewish Asia The Rise and Dwindling Days of the Baghdadi Jews of Bombay and Calcutta (1800s–Present).
Anna Zacharias (Jawaharlal Nehru University) – Maritime Connections on the Malabar Coast: Mercantile networks across the Indian ocean in the Early Modern Period.
Arghya Sengupta (University of Warsaw) – Port, Memory, and Exchange: Kolkata as a Jewish Cultural Crossroads in the Indian Ocean during the Mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Joel Jyothis Tom (Central University of Gujarat) – Songs for a Nation: A Study on the Folksongs of Cochin Jewish Women.
15:00 – 15:15
Break
15:15 – 16:45
Young Scholars’ Workshop II Chair: Yigal Sitry (Central Zionist Archives)
Omer Ghazi (Citizens Foundation for Policy Solutions) – On the Legacy of Jews in Gujarat — From Merchants and Traders to Educators, Writers, and Reformers (18th–20th Centuries).
Ran Amitai (University of Haifa) – Employment in the civil service and the army as a reason for settlement of Indian Jews in various cities in India and abroad during the Raj.
Aditya Shinde (George Washington University) – Bombay Zionist Association and Nation-Building Among Bene Israel Community.
Suraj Rajan Kadanthodu (University of Haifa) – Between India and Israel: Migration and Identity Formation of the Bene Israel Jewish community.
Rishona Fine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The Sacred Citron and the Bene Israel Celestial Garden: The Etrog as Embodied Memory.
Rohit Kumar Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University) – The Keepers of Memory: Life of Bene-Israeli Jews in India Through the Eyes of Esther David.
Elijah Roggen (O.P. Jindal Global University) Reflections from Fulbright Research on Jewish Life in India.
16:45 – 17:45
Campus tour
17:45 – 18:15
Greetings and opening remarks:
Vice Chancellor Prof C Raj Kumar (OP Jindal Global University)
Prof and Dean Sreeram Sundar Chaulia (OP Jindal Global University)
Assaf Avraham (Shazar Center for Jewish History)
Rachel Yadid (E’ele BeTamar)
Khinvraj Jangid (OP Jindal Global University)
18:15 – 19:30
Opening session – Historical and Geographic Frameworks
Chair: Khinvraj Jangid (OP Jindal Global University)
Aren Maeir (Bar-Ilan University) – The Early “Maritime Silk Road”: Bronze, Iron Age, and Classical Period Connectivity between the Land of Israel, the Indian Subcontinent and Beyond.
Miriam Frankel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “I am sending you a few things of no importance or value”: The Economy of Gifts in Jewish Trade between Egypt and India in the Middle Ages.
Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University in the Negev) – The Oceanic Turn and Modern Jewish History: Toward a New Framework.
19:30
Reception and dinner
20:30
Bus from OP Jindal Global University to New Delhi