Hindu–Jewish Encounters

The Non-Violent Liberation Theologies of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Mahatma Gandhi

“…Studies on the relationship between both cultures have blossomed (Goodman 1994;Holdrege 1995;Goshen-Gottstein 2016;Theodor and Kornberg-Greenberg 2018;Brill 2019). Barbara Holdrege, a comparative historian of religion, has characterized the Hindu and Jewish communities as non-missionary "embodied communities," with modes of bodily practice such as purity codes, sexual disciplines, dietary laws, and scriptures (Veda and Torah) (Holdrege 2013). Judaism and Hinduism value people and land, language (Sanskrit and Hebrew), and rituals and laws (dharmic injunctions and halakha).…”