The Jews of Goa

Shalva Weil is Senior Researchers at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is also Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at UNISA, University of South Africa. She has edited/co-edited books on Indian Jews, including India's Jewish Heritage (2002); Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin (2007); Karmic Passages (2008); and The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities, and Creating Super-Diversity (2019), and has published a large number of scholarly articles on the Baghdadi Jews, Bene Israel, Cochin Jews, and Judaizing groups in India. In 2017, as GIAN Distinguished Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Shalva Weil was first to offer a course on Indian Jews at an Indian University.