Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Thaths 
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 6:01 pm Aadisht Khanna  wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Thaths  wrote:
>
> > On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian <
> sur...@hserus.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hm.  What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?  Qat? Kif?
> >
> >
> > What is chewed. And is not hallucinogenic. More of a mild upper.
>


Stupid autocorrect. I meant 'Qat is chewed'.

This is why I almost never reply to emails on my phone (weaving together
two silk list threads)

>
> > There seems to be some confusion - the cat is the chewer, not the chewee.
>

Well played, sir. Well played.

Thaths

>

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Aadisht Khanna 
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Thaths  wrote:

> On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> wrote:
>
> > Hm.  What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?  Qat? Kif?
>
>
> What is chewed. And is not hallucinogenic. More of a mild upper.
>
> There seems to be some confusion - the cat is the chewer, not the chewee.

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Thaths 
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian 
wrote:

> Hm.  What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?  Qat? Kif?


What is chewed. And is not hallucinogenic. More of a mild upper.

Thaths

>

Whatever

>  it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please.  It’d be fun to hold
> conversations with a cat or dog.
>
> On 13/09/17, 10:23 AM, "silklist on behalf of Aadisht Khanna"
>  li...@aadisht.net> wrote:
>
> The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I
> think,
> but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of
> speech and
> then engages the rabbi in theological debate.
>
>
>
>

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Thaths 
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:53 pm Aadisht Khanna  wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman  wrote:
>
> > This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
> >
> > "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the
> Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> > Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
> >
> >
> The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I think,
> but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech and
> then engages the rabbi in theological debate.
>

+1 to The Rabbi's Cat (graphic novel). Has bits about the Sephardim (or is
it Maghrebi) experience.

Thaths

>

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Landon Hurley 
On 13 September 2017 00:56:07 GMT-04:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian 
 wrote:
>Hm.  What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?  Qat? Kif?  Whatever
>it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please.  It’d be fun to hold
>conversations with a cat or dog.
>

If I remember correctly, I think the cat eats the rabbi's favoured talking 
canary and gains the power of speech. The rabbi proclaims that it was stealing 
and has a bunch of parables, and the cat has an existentialist rebuttal to 
religion. Smoked canary apparently does wonders for your perceptions of reality.


>On 13/09/17, 10:23 AM, "silklist on behalf of Aadisht Khanna"
>li...@aadisht.net> wrote:
>
>The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I
>think,
>but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech
>and
>then engages the rabbi in theological debate.


-- 
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan 
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan  wrote:
>
> [1] A quote from an earlier work,
>
> When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions,
> without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that
> all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire
> contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely
> sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and
> blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?
>
> -Zorba the Greek

Actually I appear to be mistaken, Zorba the Greek wasn't an earlier
work, it was ten years after Travels in China and Japan was published
originally in Greek.  I will have to revisit that theory about him
quitting the abstract. Maybe a good time for me to read his
autobiography :-)

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian 


On 13/09/17, 10:50 AM, "silklist on behalf of Srini RamaKrishnan" 
 wrote:

➢ His Rabbi clearly isn't smoking anything. The heaven hereafter can wait, he 
says, give me the dirt I can touch.

Beautiful, thanks!

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan 
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
 wrote:
> Hm.  What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?  Qat? Kif?  Whatever it is 
> the rabbi was on, I’d like some please.  It’d be fun to hold conversations 
> with a cat or dog.

Perhaps you'd like the Rabbi of Nikos Kazantzakis

A rabbi was once asked the following question: ‘When you say that the
Jews should return to Palestine, you mean, surely, the heavenly, the
immaterial, the spiritual Palestine, our true homeland?’ The rabbi
jabbed his staff into the ground in wrath and shouted, ‘No! I want the
Palestine down here, the one you can touch with your hands, with its
stones, its thorns and its mud!’

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Landon Hurley 
On 13 September 2017 00:52:57 GMT-04:00, Aadisht Khanna  
wrote:
>The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I
>think,
>but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech
>and
>then engages the rabbi in theological debate.

It was also made into a French animated film that was very well done as I 
remember it. I believe it ended up on Netflix, with the original French audio 
track. 


-- 
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian 
Hm.  What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?  Qat? Kif?  Whatever it is 
the rabbi was on, I’d like some please.  It’d be fun to hold conversations with 
a cat or dog.

On 13/09/17, 10:23 AM, "silklist on behalf of Aadisht Khanna" 
 wrote:

The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I think,
but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech and
then engages the rabbi in theological debate.

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Aadisht Khanna 
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman  wrote:

> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>
>
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I think,
but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech and
then engages the rabbi in theological debate.

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread John Sundman 
Thaths:

Thank you very much for this.

I recently read Ghosh’s “The Hungry Tide”, which I loved until the last 20 
pages  — I plan to write a review for posting on Goodreads describing what I 
love about the book and why the ending so disappointed me. 

EVERYBODY ELSE: 

Thank you so much for your wonderful responses to this query. I forwarded some 
of them to Nikki before I went to work this morning and will be sending along 
the rest of them now. I’m sure we can expect a note of effusive thanks from her 
within a day or two.

Regards,

jrs

> On Sep 12, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Thaths  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:08 PM John Sundman  wrote:
> 
>> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>> 
>> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the
>> Arab-World-not-including-Israel? Also interested in hearing about novels
>> concerning Jews in India. “
>> 
> 
> Not a novel, but Amitav Ghosh's 'In an Antique Land: History in the Guise
> of a Traveler's Tale' is good. It includes bits about Judaism in India (and
> Egypt) and globalization in the ancient world.
> 
> Thaths

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Jahnavi Phalkey 
BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY By Anita Desai. New York: Alfred A. Knopf  (1988)
THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BELONG


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On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 2:26:52 PM GMT+1, Suresh Ramasubramanian 
 wrote:  
 
 The first hit gives several leads

>From “Who are the Jews of India?” by Nathan Katz

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWX6pF2PTJwC=PA6=PA6=novel+jew+india=bl=ZaFNW5EiSQ=1mw80hd34qX9T_PO6OMBPwtZ_Nw=en=X=0ahUKEwj1jOetw5_WAhWHNo8KHW_MCPMQ6AEIRzAA#v=onepage=novel%20jew%20india=false

See attached screen grab


On 12/09/17, 4:37 PM, "silklist on behalf of John Sundman" 
 wrote:

    This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
    
    "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? 
Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
    
    Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name; 
she’s the co-author of Stephenson’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
    
    Regards,
    
    jrs
    
   

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Lahar Appaiah 
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie.


On 12 Sep 2017 4:37 p.m., "John Sundman"  wrote:

> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>
> Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name;
> she’s the co-author of Stephenson’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
>
> Regards,
>
> jrs
>
>

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Cindy Gallop 
Re Jews in India:

Esther David's trilogy 'The Walled City', 'The Book Of Esther', 'The Book
Of Rachel'

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Rachel-Esther-David/dp/0670058661

Gay Courter, 'Flowers In The Blood'

https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Blood-Gay-Courter/dp/0595242499

Short stories:

Sophie Judah, 'Dropped From Heaven'

https://www.amazon.com/Dropped-Heaven-Stories-Sophie-Judah/dp/0805242481

Esther David, 'Shalom India Housing Society'

https://www.amazon.com/Shalom-Housing-Society-Jewish-Writers/dp/1558615962





On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:07 AM, John Sundman  wrote:

> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>
> Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name;
> she’s the co-author of Stephenson’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
>
> Regards,
>
> jrs
>
>


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Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Vinayak Hegde 
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Vinayak Hegde  wrote:
> Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26530362-farthest-field
>
> This is not a novel in the strictest form of the world as it is
> non-fiction reminiscence by Raghu Karnad (the author) about his Parsi
> family caught in the throes of world war II in India during the
> British Colonial rule.
>
> -- Vinayak
>
> PS: I am using Goodreads to expand my reading (via friend recommendations).
> If you are interested, you can add me at
> https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57521234-vinayak-hegde (or using
> my name/email)

Sorry. I misread the mail. Parsis follow Zoroastrianism which is
different from Jewism.
My apologies. The book though is a great read about forgotten history of India

-- Vinayak

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Thejaswi Udupa 
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman  wrote:

> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>

Novels by Esther David, an Indian Jew herself, especially The Book of
Esther and The Book of Rachel are probably the well known depictions in
literature of the Indian Jewish experience.

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Vinayak Hegde 
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26530362-farthest-field

This is not a novel in the strictest form of the world as it is
non-fiction reminiscence by Raghu Karnad (the author) about his Parsi
family caught in the throes of world war II in India during the
British Colonial rule.

-- Vinayak

PS: I am using Goodreads to expand my reading (via friend recommendations).
If you are interested, you can add me at
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57521234-vinayak-hegde (or using
my name/email)

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman  wrote:
> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? 
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>
> Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name; 
> she’s the co-author of Stephenson’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
>
> Regards,
>
> jrs
>

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Harnidh Kaur 
The Last Jews of Kerala: The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten
Jewish Community, Ruby of Cochin, Dropped from Heaven are all great!

There's a great piece on CD that might be of help:
https://cafedissensus.com/2014/12/31/the-indian-jewish-fiction/

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman  wrote:

> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>
> Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name;
> she’s the co-author of Stephenson’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
>
> Regards,
>
> jrs
>
>


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[silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread John Sundman 
This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:

"Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? 
Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “

Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name; 
she’s the co-author of Stephenson’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”

Regards,

jrs