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    Indi­an Jew­ish Experiences

    Cover of Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage
    Nonfiction
    Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage
    Shaul Sapir
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    Fiction
    Dropped From Heaven
    Sophie Judah
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    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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    Sita Brahmachari
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    Paula J. Freedman
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    Elana Benjamin
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    Esther David
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    Gita Wolf; Joydeb Chitrakar, illus.
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    Sadia Shepard
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    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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