The Jews of India
Selected Bibliography
(Compiled by Rahel Musleah)

On the Banks of the Ganga, by Rabbi Ezekiel N. Musleah (Christopher)
No Shortcuts to Far Horizons, by Rabbi Ezekiel N. Musleah (www.etzmusleah.com)
The Jewish Communities of India, by Joan Roland (Transaction)
Jews of the Raj, by Mavis Hyman (Hyman Publishers, London)
The Jews of India, edited by Orpa Slepak (Israel Museum)
Who Are the Jews of India? Nathan Katz (University of California)
B'Kol Arev: Songs of the Jews of Calcutta, editted by Rahel Musleah (Tara)
Kir'u Aharai-Read After Me: A Manual for Mourners, Rabbi Ezekiel N. Musleah
      (available from author)
Ruby of Cochin, Ruby Daniel (JPS)
Burnt Bread and Chutney, Carmit Delman (Ballantine)
Flowers in the Blood, Gay Courter (Dutton)
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames, Jael Silliman (Brandeis/New England)
India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art & Life-Cycle, Shalva Weil, ed.
      (Marg Publications, Mumcai, India)
Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel, Hillel Halkin (Houghton Mifflin)
Book of Rachel, Esther David (Penguin/Viking)
The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie (Vintage)
Two Lives, Vikram Seth (HarperCollins)
There, Where the Pepper Grows, by Bem le Hunte (Fourth Estate)

Sephardic Jews
A Treasury of Sephardic Customs, by Herbert Dobrinsky (Ktav/Yeshiva)
The Rhythms of Jewish Living: A Sephardic Exploration of the Basic Teachings of Judaism,
       Marc Angel (Aronson)
Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundered Years of a Literary Legacy, edited by Diane Matza
       (Brandeis/University Press of New England)
Out of Egypt, memoir by Andre Aciman (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews, by Kay Kaufman
       Shelemay (University of Chicago)
Our Story: The Jews of Sepharad, by Robert Sugar (CAJE)
Bridges, Vol. 7: Sephardi and Mizrahi Women Write About Their Lives

Iraqi Jews
Mother of the Pound: Memoirs in the Life and History of the Iraqi Jews, David Kazzaz
       (Sepher-Hermon)
Operation Babylon: Jewish Clandestine Activity in the Middle East 1946-51, Shlomo Hillel
       (Collins)

Cookbooks
The Book of Jewish Food, Claudia Roden (Knopf)
Sephardic Cooking, Copeland Marks (Donald Fine)
Indian Jewish Cooking, Mavis Hyman (Hyman Publishing, London)
Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian, Madhur Jaffrey (Potter)
The Sephardic Table, Pamela Twena (Houghton Mifflin)
A Fistful of Lentils: Syrian Jewish Recipes from Grandma Fritzie's Kitchen, Jennifer Felicia
       Abadi (Harvard Common Press)
Around the World With a Skillet, by Flower Silliman (Morris Press)

Music
Hodu: Jewish Rhythms from Baghdad to India (Rahel Musleah)
B’Kol Arev: Songs of the Jews of Calcutta, edited by Rahel Musleah (Tara)
The Cochin Jews of India, Johanna Spector (video, Ergo)
Oh, Lovely Parrot: Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala (Hebrew University)

India
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts (St. Martin’s)
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin)
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin)
Mistress of Spices, Chitra Divakaruni (Anchor)
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (HarperCollins)
Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth (HarperCollins)

Internet:
www.rahelsjewishindia.com