Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope

by Jael Silliman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584653051
• ISBN13: 9781584653059
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.1"