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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames by Jael Silliman SC
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- 9781584653059
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
ISBN-10
1584653051
ISBN-13
9781584653059
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2629686
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames : Womens Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Judaism / General, Women's Studies, Jewish Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Series
Hbi Series on Jewish Women Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2001-093447
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames offers a personal and social history of the author's foremothers -- Baghdadi Jews who lived most of their lives in the Jewish community in Calcutta. Jael Silliman begins with a portrait of Farha, her maternal great-greandmother, who dwelled almost entirely within the Baghdadi Jewish community no matter where she and her husband traveled on business (Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore). Next is her maternal grandmother, Miriam (Mary), who was much more Anglicized than Farha and deeply influenced by British colonial practices. The third portrait, of Silliman's mother, Flower, reveals a woman in a double transition: her own and India's. Flower grew up in colonial India, witnessed India's struggle for independence, and lived her middle years in an independent India. The final sketch is of Silliman herself. Born in Calcutta in 1955 in the waning Jewish community, Silliman grew up in a cosmopolitan and Indian world, rather than a Baghdadi Jewish one. Silliman's own travels have taken her to the US, where, as a teacher and scholar, her primary identification is with the "South Asian intellectual and professional diaspora." These rich family portraits convey a sense of the singular roles women played in building and sustaining a complex diaspora in what Silliman calls "Jewish Asia" over the past 150 years. Her sketches of the everyday lives of her foremothers -- from the food they ate and the clothes they wore to the social and political relationships they forged -- bring to life a community and a culture, even as they disclose the unexpected and subtle complexities of the colonial encounter as experienced by Jewish women.
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