Rediscovering India’s Jews

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Sadia Shepard was raised a Muslim, so she was surprised to learn that her grandmother had actually been born Jewish as a member of India’s small Bene Israel community of Jews. In her new book, The Girl from Foreign, she writes about her journey to India to learn more about her grandmother’s life, the history of the Bene Israel, and her own intertwined cultural heritage.

Event:
Sadia Shepard will be speaking and signing books
Thursday Aug. 7 at 7:00 pm
at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble
97 Warren St.

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