The Jews of Goa
By: edited by Shalva Weil
Publisher: Primus Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9789389755763; 9789389755770
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Jews; History; Congresses; Inquisition
Notes: "The contributors to this book met at the first Conference on the Jews of Goa, which I convened at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East at Jerusalem, during 18-19 December 2016"--Page xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jews of Goa : an introduction / Shalva Weil; title: Jews of Goa and the trading world of the Indian Ocean, 1000-1650 / Pius Malekandathil; title: Behind the curtain of the Inquisition : new Christians and Jews in India in the mid-sixteenth century / Ana Canas D. Martins; title: The 'Law of Moses' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Goa / Moisés Orfali; title: 'Desengano de perdidos' : social definitions and quest for identity in sixteenth-century Portuguese India / Joao Teles e Cunha; title: The Jews in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Goa / José Alberto R. da Silva Tavim; title: All roads lead to Goa : messengers, interpreters, Jewish and new Christian informants in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century / Dejanirah Couto; title: The many lives of the Portuguese-Jewish physician Garcia de Orta : a historiographical perspective / Palmira Fontes da Costa; title: The resonance of Dellon's account of the Goa Inquisition among Reformed Christians and Jews in Amsterdam / Myriam Silvera; title: The enigma of the Jews of Goa / Shalva Weil.