CONTRIBUTOR:

Shalva Weil

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Senior Researcher 

DEPARTMENT:

Research Institute for Innovation in Education

INSTITUTION:

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

BIOGRAPHY:

Shalva Weil is Senior Researcher at RIFIE (Research Institute for Innovation in Education) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her publications include 80 scientific articles on the Jews of India and Pakistan. She is editor (with David Shulman) of Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009), editor of India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art, and Life-Cycle (Marg 3rd edition, 2009), and co-editor of Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007). Dr. Weil is founding Chairperson (with Zubin Mehta as President) of the Israel-India Cultural Association.