* List of Illustrations 7* Foreword by Vasudha Narayanan 11* Introduction 19* Part One: Indian Jewish Communities* 1. The Historical Traditions of the Jews of Kochi 31* 2. The Ritual Enactments of the Cochini Jews: The Powers of Purity and Nobility* (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 57* 3. The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation 96* 4 'Baghdadi' Jews in India, Burma, and Malaysia 122* 5. The Study of Jewish Communities in India: The State of the Art 140* Part Two: Individual Jewish Lives in India* 6. The Identity of a Mystic: The Case of Sa'id Sarmad a Jewish-Yogi-Sufi Courtier of the Mughals 167* 7. Kabbalists, Saints, and Village Deities and the Acculturation of Jewish Communities in India 187* 8.
Jewish 'Apartheid' and a Jewish Gandhi* (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 204* 9. 'By Us, This is Forbidden': A Tale of Jewish Ethics and Indian Spices* (with Zvi Zohar) 248* 10. An Orthodox American Jewish Soldier in India during World War II* (with Ellen S. Goldberg) 258* Part Three: Interreligious Dialogues* 11. The Dalai Lama's Jewish Secret 269* 12. A Tibetan-language History of Israel by Jamyang Norbu 287* 13. A Survey of Buddhist-Jewish Relations 299* 14.
Maurice Friedman's Dialogue with Asian Religions 328* 15. How the Hindu-Jewish Encounter Reconfigures Interreligious Dialogue 349* 16. An Introduction to Judaism for Hindus 368* Index 395* Presentation and Publication Record 413.