Old Memories, New Histories: (Re)discovering the Past of Jewish Dalits

Egorova, Yulia; Perwez, Shahid

doi:10.1080/02757206.2012.649272

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“…On one hand, the perceived "ethnocentricity" of the Jewish culture has helped them acquire recognition from the upper caste, enabling them to leap out of the caste system as well as the resulted discrimination and making social mobility possible to some extent (Zykov, 2015). On the other hand, their embrace of Jewish identity allows for larger freedom of self-expression, constituting a "project in communal self-empowerment" (Egorova and Perwez, 2012); it also grants them opportunities for immigrating to Israel. As such, the issue of Judaising movements, despite its undoubtful religious connotations, is also a problem of the gap of socio-economic development between the Global North and the Global South.…”

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Where Is the Home: Kaifeng Jews Descendants on the Road of Return

Wu¹

2022

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In order to better answer these questions, this thesis will be divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 “Theorising the Kaifeng Jewish descendants” reviews three bodies of literature: (a) Jews and China—a historical encounter, (b) conceptualising emerging Jewish communities, and (c) disputed Jewishness in Israel’s immigration policy, so that to situate the Kaifeng Jewry issue in a broader societal and academic discourse. Chapter 2 “Kaifeng Jewry in the PRC” traces the development of the community from the 1950s to the 1990s, revolving around the ethnic classification campaign that erased Kaifeng Jewry from China’s minzu picture and the modification campaign in 1996 that erased Jewish minzu on paper officially. Chapter 3 “To “return” or to stay, that is the question” invokes accounts of four Kaifeng Jewish descendants who made different choices regarding aliyah and concludes with their motivation either to “return” or to stay. Chapter 4 “Being Chinese in the promised land” investigates the Kaifeng immigrants’ mixed identity as being Chinese and Jewish simultaneously, proposing an examination of “Israeliness” as a competing, alternative socio-cultural awareness to “Chineseness;” it also looks into the racialisation logic and racism confronted by the Kaifeng immigrants that contain their integration into Israeli society.

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Where Is the Home: Kaifeng Jews Descendants on the Road of Return

Wu¹

2022

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“…Studies of South Asian migrants in places other than Europe and the States would suggest that their experiences of the full range of citizenship described by Vora are varied and diverse. Egorova and Perwez (2012) have, for example, worked with Indian Jews, some of whom have migrated to Israel. Their pathway to Israeli citizenship is unlike that of either Dubai's Indians or the South Asian diaspora examined in the USA, the UK or elsewhere in Europe.…”

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