India, Israel and the Jewish People

• Table of Contents
  • Part 1
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
  • Part 2: Recommendations
    • Recommendations for Israeli and Jewish Policy Makers: A Ten-Year Plan
      • Political and Strategic Ties
      • Economic and Technological Ties
      • Cultural and Media Ties
      • Academic, Educational, and Religious Ties
      • Ties with India’s Intellectual Elites
      • Israeli Tourists and Tikkun Olam in India
  • Part 3: Chapters
    • Chapter 1: Why India?
      • The Rise of Asia
      • Why Israel and the Jewish People Must Engage India
      • Facilitating Bonds: India, Israel, and the Jewish People
      • Endnotes
    • Chapter 2: India Marches West: Fast-growing links with the Middle East
      • The Driving Factors
      • Renewing Ancient Links
      • Energy: The New Key Factor
      • Growing Economic Exchanges with the Middle East
      • Islam in India
      • Political and Military Links with the Muslim Middle East, and the Israel Factor
      • India’s Quest for Global Power Status
      • Endnotes
    • Chapter 3: The Development of Indo-Israeli Ties
      • Historical Background: 1947-1992
      • Politics and Diplomacy since 1992
      • The Military
      • Economic Exchanges
      • Culture
      • The Trouble with Young Israeli Tourists
      • Endnotes
    • Chapter 4: India, the Jewish People, and Israel: A Triangular Relationship
      • The Jews of India: A Long-Lasting Symbiosis
      • The 20^th Century: World Judaism Reaches out to India
      • Recognition without Normalization: American Jewish Interventions
      • Ties between Jewish and Indian Diasporas
      • Jewish outreach to the Indian diaspora in the United States
      • Jewish outreach to the Indian diaspora in the United Kingdom
      • Religious Dialogues: Hindus and Jews; Indian Muslims and Jews
      • Jewish NGOs and India’s Civil Society
      • Crosscurrents in 20^th Century Literature: Jews in Indian Fiction and India in Jewish Fiction
      • Endnotes
    • Chapter 5: Excursion into History: Ancient and Medieval Traces
      • Comparing Indian and Jewish Civilization: A Western Tradition
      • Early Israel and First Temple Period: Echoes from a Far-Off Land (1200 – 586 BCE)
      • Hellenistic Jews: The Idealization of India (300 BCE – 200 CE)
      • Mishnah and Talmud: Dealing with Indian Reality (150-500 CE)
      • Jewish India Traders in the Middle Ages (1100-1300)
      • India in Medieval Jewish Thought: Between Admiration and Rejection (900-1300)
      • Endnotes
    • List of Interviewees
    • Selected Bibliography