The State of Research into Bene Israel Indian Jews

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Ezekiel, McSes , History and Culture of the Bene Israel in India, Bombay , Nadiad, 1948.

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———, "The Literary Activities of the 'Bene Israel' in India," Jewish Book Annual, Vol. 29, 1971 -1972.

———, Unknown Jews in Unknown Lands: The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel (1824-1832) , New York, Ktav Publishing House Inc., 1973.

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———, Religious Evolution Among the Bene Israel of India since 1990, Bombay, 1963.

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———, The Bene Israel: A Summary, Jerusalem, Israel Rabbinate Press, 1974 (in Hebrew).

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———, "Jews as an Indian Caste," Jewish Journal of Sociology, 1959, Vol. I, pp. 43-57.

———, "The Bene Israel in Israel," Middle Eastern Studies, 1966, Vol. 2, pp. 123-43.

———, The Children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay, Oxford , B. Blackwell, 1971.

——— "The Bene Israel and the Jewish People," Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume, Columbia University Press, 1977 , pp. 859-86.

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———, "The Bene Israel in Britain," New Community, 1974, Vol. 3, pp. 88-92.

———, Bene Israel Indian Jews in Lod Israel: A Study of the Persistence of Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity, Unpublished D. Phil. Thesis, University of Sussex, England, 1977a.

———, "Names and Identity among the Bene Israel," Ethnic Groups, 1977b, Vol. 1, pp. 201-20.

———, "Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel," International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1977c, Vol. 13, pp. 71-85.

———, "The Literature of the Jews of India," in H. Jason (ed.), "The Folk Literature of the People of Israel ," Journal of Indian Folkloristics, 1980a (forthcoming).

———, "Contacts between the Bene Israel and the Holy Land until 1948" in Ben-Ami, I. (ed.), Proceedings of the First World Sefardi Congress, 1978, 1980 b (forthcoming).

———, The Social Situation of the Bene Israel from India, Jerusalem , Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare Press, 1980c (in Hebrew) (forthcoming).

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———, The Bene Israel of Bombay: An Appeal for Their Christian Education, Bombay, 1852.

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———, The Hebrew Press in the Orient, Jerusalem, Hebrew University Press, 1953, Vol. 2, pp. 52-89 (in Hebrew).