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Sent from my iPhone On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:03 AM Mel de Quadros <ymirconsult...@gmail.com> wrote: > A book on the subject: > Synopsis > Some of the Jews, expelled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1496, > as well as those who fled after the Portuguese Inquisition in 1536, > migrated to Goa, India. > > However, once the court of the holy Office established itself in Goa in > 1560, The jews—who had formed an organized community there—became subject > to the persecution of the Inquisition. Despite the horrors of the Goan > Inquisition, some Jews and new Christians, or conversations, who > practiced their religion in secret while ostensibly practicing > Christianity, managed to retain favour in the service of the Portuguese > crown. > > The Jews of Goa brings together scholars and researcher to discuss the > history and legacy of the Jews and new Christians (conversations), through > texts and primary documents, missionary literature and records of > inquisitorial trials from the Lisbon and Goan archives. > > The volume breaks new ground in examining the early and medieval history > of the Jews, with a focus on the Portuguese period after Goa became a > major power centre in India. > > The book breaks the silence that has surrounded the Jews and new > Christians and their descendants in Goa during the past few hundred years. > > About the #Author : > > Shalva Weil is Senior Researcher 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); > 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 the first to offer a course on > Indian Jews at an Indian University. >