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Indi­an Jew­ish Experiences

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Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage
Shaul Sapir
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Fiction
Dropped From Heaven
Sophie Judah
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In The Footsteps of the Lost Ten Tribes
Avigdor Shachan
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India's Israel Policy
P.R. Kumaraswamy
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Jews and the Indian National Art Project
Kenneth X. Robbins, Marvin Tokayer, eds.
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Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
Jenny Feldon
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Children's
Mira in the Present Tense
Sita Brahmachari
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My Basmati Bat Mitzvah
Paula J. Freedman
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My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi
Elana Benjamin
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Shalom India Housing Society
Esther David
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The Enduring Ark
Gita Wolf; Joydeb Chitrakar, illus.
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The Girl From Foreign
Sadia Shepard
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The Invitation
Anne Cherian
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The Last Brother
Nathacha Appanah; Geoffrey Strachan, trans.
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The Last Jews of Kerala
Edna Fernandes
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Western Jews in India: From the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Kenneth X. Robbins & Marvin Tokayer, eds.
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A Play for the End of the World: A Novel
Jai Chakrabarti

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