Download or read book The Jews of Andhra Pradesh written by Yulia Egorova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews of Andhra Pradesh is an engaging and thought-provoking ethnography devoted to the Bene Ephraim--a Dalit group in India that has embraced Jewish tradition. Egorova and Perwez offer a nuanced and theoretically-informed account which explores how the story of the Bene Ephraim challenges and extends contemporary understandings of Jewishness and illuminates radical new directions in Dalit discourse.