Day 3
Wednesday, February 18
Itinerary
9:00 – 10:30
Session V – Iraq, Persian Gulf and India
Chair: Aaron Greener (Shazar Center for Jewish History)
Yehuda Pava (Ben-Gurion University) – Mapping Diasporic Space via a 19th Century Calcutta-Based Judeo-Baghdadi Periodical.
Lipika Pelham (University of Pennsylvania) – From Babylon to Calcutta: To what extent Middle Eastern Jews in colonial India ushered in a non-European Jewish Internationalism?
Geraldine Gudefin (National University of Singapore) – Najia’s Voyage: Jewish Marriage, Mobility, and Law Between Basra and Bombay (1929-1931).
Levi Cooper (Bar-Ilan University) – Flora Sassoon’s Questions in Jewish Law: Rabbinic Correspondence Across the Indian Ocean in the early 20th Century.
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:15
Session VI – Between Yemen and India
Chair: Rachel Yadid (E’ele BeTamar)
Bat-Zion Klorman-Eraqi (The Open University of Israel) – Yemeni Jews and their Indian Diaspora: Ties of Mutual Dependence.
Ofer Ashwal (Bo’ee Teiman International Research Institute) – Wedding and Ketubah Customs in Cochin (India) as a Reflection of the Connection between Yemenite and Indian Jewry.
Amihai Radzyner (Bar-Ilan University) – Aden Jews in the Bombay Courts: The Messa Will and the Intersection of Jewish and Colonial Law.
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:00
Archival Documentation of Jews in the Indian Ocean
Moderator: Sifra Lentin (Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations)
Panelists:
Kenneth X. Robbins (Private Archivist-Collector) – Documentation of Jewish History in an Indian Ocean Archive
Yigal Sitry (Central Zionist Archives) – India and the Indian Ocean as a Destination for Jewish Refugees and Immigrants during World War II
14:00 - 14:30
Closing remarks and discussion (led by Menashe Anzi).
14:30
End of the conference
17:00
Optional networking cocktails (details to follow)