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The
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish
Studies
is pleased to invite you to a lecture by
MAINA CHAWLA SINGH
University
of Delhi
Scholar in Residence Hadassah Brandeis Institute
"We
are not Mizrahi...We are Indian Jews"
Issues
of Culture and Identity in the Indian Jewish community in Israel.
Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:00 PM
0142 Holzapfel Hall (Jewish Studies Seminar Room)
Maina Chawla Singh
teaches at the College of Vocational Studies (University of Delhi). From 2005
to 2008, Singh researched and lectured in Israel at Bar-Ilan,
Haifa and Tel Aviv universities. Her previous research focused on gender and
colonialism and in addition to numerous essays and articles, Singh is the
author of Gender, Religion, and “Heathen Lands’: American Missionary Women in
South Asia (1860s – 1940s), (New York: 2000). She has lectured at
universities in the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Maina Chawla Singh’s
research focuses on the community of Indian Jews in Israel. Based on field-work done in Israel (2005-8), the study examines
issues of ethnicity, migration and diasporic identities. Within the wider research, a special project focuses on the
narratives of first-generation Indian-Jewish women who came from Bombay,
Calcutta and Cochin in the 1950s, ’60s , and ’70s and
were settled in moshavs, ‘development towns’ and
elsewhere in Israel. Singh examines ‘Profiles’ of women to show how ethnicity
and religion intersect with gender to shape women’s lives both in matters of
home and family as well as, in the ‘public sphere’ of work and professions. Her
research is planned as an edited volume.
This event is free and open
to the public
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