Edna Fernandes: The Last Jews Of Kerala

Cover: 9781846270994 | The Last Jews Of Kerala | Edna Fernandes | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when their combined number has diminished to fewer than fifty and they are on the threshold of extinction, have the two remaining Jewish communities in south India begun to realise that their destiny, and their undoing, is the same. Living in Cochin alongside this last generation, Edna Fernandes tells their story from the illustrious arrival of their ancestors from the court of King Solomon, through their long heyday of wealth, tolerance and privilege to their present twilight existence, as synagogues crumble into disuse and weddings become a thing of the past, leaving only funerals.

Über den Autor

Edna Fernandes is a British Indian journalist who was born in Nairobi and grew up in London. She is a Special Correspondent for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, writing international reportage features, and she also writes for History Today. A former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and political correspondent for Reuters in London, her articles have been reproduced in newspapers around the world.
Her first book Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism was shortlisted for the UK's 2008 Index on Censorship TR Fyvel prize and nominated for India's Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Best Book Award. Fernandes' new book, The Last Jews of Kerala, was shortlisted for India's 2009 Vodafone Crossword Literary prize. It is also a Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year. [...]

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781846270994
ISBN-10:	1846270995
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fernandes, Edna
Hersteller:	Granta Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Ansata, ein Label der Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, Neumarkter Str. 28, D-81673 München, kundenservice@penguinrandomhouse.de
Maße:	197 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Edna Fernandes
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.08.2009
Gewicht:	0,21 kg