Round Table Conference on Jews of India at Conference Hall, IGNCA, 1, CV Mess, Janpath > 10am to 5:30pm on 13th October 2014
Time : 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Round Table Conference on Jews of India
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Conference Hall, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 1, Central Vista (CV) Mess, Janpath, New Delhi-110001
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : Conference Hall, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 1, Central Vista (CV) Mess, Janpath, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : Opp. National Archives, adjoining India Gate Lawns
Event Description : Round Table Conference on Jews of India.
Background Note :
India has been home to ancient communities of Jews whose centuries of existence in this socio-cultural milieu is marked by the sense of freedom they’ve enjoyed here. Though numerically a small population, the Jews of India have been remarkable for distinct traditions and practices contributing much diversity to the world Jewry. In the second half of the twentieth century, the Jewish population in India has begun to dwindle owing to migrations and the communities have grown in their number in Israel and in other parts of the world today. There exists a rich variety of legends, tales, rituals, festivals, synagogues, songs, costumes and cuisine which bear testimony to these specific strands of Judaism and their age-old cultural co-existence in India. The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), an autonomous centre under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is organizing a one-day round table conference on the “Jews of India” on 13thOctober 2014, in the Conference Hall, CV Mess, Janpath. The conference is being planned in the form of a consultative meeting of eminent scholars and artists to discuss the organization of a major program comprising an exhibition and international symposium on the Jewish heritage of India at IGNCA in 2015-16. The conference will also include presentations by senior Indo-Judaic scholars on the topics of West Asian and European Jews and
Holocaust Refugees in India, Jewish Contribution to Indian art, literature, music and the Indian Jewish heritage of cities such as Cochin, Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Delhi and Mumbai. The conference will be inaugurated by Mrs. Dipali Khanna, Member Secretary, IGNCA. The participants include Dr. MGS Narayanan (Historian and Former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research), Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins (Author of Western Jews in India), Dr. Sreekala Sivasankaran (Associate Professor, JanapadaSampada, IGNCA), Esther David (Sahitya Academy awardee) and Dr. Jael Silliman (Associate Professor, University of Iowa) among others.
Program Schedule :
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : Conference Hall, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 1, Central Vista (CV) Mess, Janpath, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : Opp. National Archives, adjoining India Gate Lawns
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Central Sectt.' (Yellow Line and Violet Line)
Event Description : Round Table Conference on Jews of India.
Background Note :
India has been home to ancient communities of Jews whose centuries of existence in this socio-cultural milieu is marked by the sense of freedom they’ve enjoyed here. Though numerically a small population, the Jews of India have been remarkable for distinct traditions and practices contributing much diversity to the world Jewry. In the second half of the twentieth century, the Jewish population in India has begun to dwindle owing to migrations and the communities have grown in their number in Israel and in other parts of the world today. There exists a rich variety of legends, tales, rituals, festivals, synagogues, songs, costumes and cuisine which bear testimony to these specific strands of Judaism and their age-old cultural co-existence in India. The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), an autonomous centre under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is organizing a one-day round table conference on the “Jews of India” on 13thOctober 2014, in the Conference Hall, CV Mess, Janpath. The conference is being planned in the form of a consultative meeting of eminent scholars and artists to discuss the organization of a major program comprising an exhibition and international symposium on the Jewish heritage of India at IGNCA in 2015-16. The conference will also include presentations by senior Indo-Judaic scholars on the topics of West Asian and European Jews and
Holocaust Refugees in India, Jewish Contribution to Indian art, literature, music and the Indian Jewish heritage of cities such as Cochin, Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Delhi and Mumbai. The conference will be inaugurated by Mrs. Dipali Khanna, Member Secretary, IGNCA. The participants include Dr. MGS Narayanan (Historian and Former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research), Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins (Author of Western Jews in India), Dr. Sreekala Sivasankaran (Associate Professor, JanapadaSampada, IGNCA), Esther David (Sahitya Academy awardee) and Dr. Jael Silliman (Associate Professor, University of Iowa) among others.
Program Schedule :
I. Inaugural Session
10.00 Welcome Address by Mrs. Dipali Khanna (Member Secretary, IGNCA)
10.15 Presentation of the Concept for the Exhibition on ‘Hodu: Jews In India’ by Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins
10.30 Presentation of the Concept for the International Symposium on the Jewish Heritage of India by Dr. S. Sreekala (Associate Professor, Janapada Sampada, IGNCA)
II. Presentations (~20 mins.) and Discussions (~20 mins.)
10.40 West Asian and European Jews in India by Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins
11.00 Holocaust refugees in India by Dr. Margit Frits (University of Gaz, Austria)
11.20 Memories of growing up Jewish in Bombay: a model for coexistence? by Elizabeth
Solomon (ISF Academy, Hong Kong)
11.40 Discussions with Dr. Robbins, Dr. Frits, and Dr. Solomon12.00 Tea Break
12.10 Jews of Kerala by Dr. S. Sreekala (Associate Professor, IGNCA)
12.30 Copper Plates of Cochin Jews by Dr. MGS Narayanan (Historian, Kerala)
12.50 The Last Bene Israel Jews of Ahmedabad by Esther David (Author, Sahitya Akademi
awardee)
13.10 Discussions with Dr. Sreekala, Dr. Narayanan and Ms. Esther David
13.30 Lunch
14.30 Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Building a Digital Archive by Yael Silliman (Associate
Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Iowa, will be in Kolkata)
14.50 Indian Jews as they come across in their literature by Navras Jaat Aafreedi (Gautam
Buddha University, Greater Noida)
15.10 [Presentation/Abstract Awaited] Shye Ben-Tzur (Composer, poet based in Ajmer/Jaipur)
15.30 Music of the Baghdadian and Bene Israel Jews of India by Sara Manasseh
(Ethnomusicologist, London)
15.50 Discussions with Dr. Silliman, Dr. Aafreedi, Mr. Ben-Tzur, Dr. Manasseh
16.15 Tea Break
16.30 Jewish Heritage and the Contribution of the Community in India by Ralphy Jhirad
(Trustee, Bene Israel Heritage Museum and Genealogical Research Centre, Mumbai)16.50 Jews in Delhi [Presentation/Abstract Awaited] by Ezekeil Malekar (Honorary Secretary,
Judah Hyam Synagogue, New Delhi)
17.10 Discussion with Mr. Jhirad and Mr. Malekar
17.30 Closing Statements
Round Table Conference on Jews of India at Conference Hall, IGNCA, 1, CV Mess, Janpath > 10am to 5:30pm on 13th October 2014
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