5 From the Editors
7 Purim in Cochin in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century According to Lisbon’s Inquisition Trials
By José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
25 The Synagogue at Parur, India: Its Architecture and Spatial Experience
By Jay A. Waronker
37 Baumgartner’s Bombay: Postcolonialism and Postmemory
By Linda Weinhouse
47 The Bronze Age Writing System of Sarasvati Hieroglyphics as Evidenced
by Two “Rosetta Stones”
By S. Kalyanaraman
75 Ethnocultural Barriers Medicalized: A Critique of Jacobsen
By Ephraim Nissan
121 The Ethics of the Pepper Marts of Malabar in the Mid-19th Century: A Sephardic View
By Zvi Zohar and Nathan Katz
145 Madhuri Santanam Sondhi, Intercivilizational Dialogue on Peace: Martin Buber and Basanta Kumar Malik
Reviewed by Maurice S. Friedman
147 The Bene Israel Community Family Tree
By Nissim Moses
149 The First Ever Holocaust Films Retrospective in South Asia
By Navras Jaat Aafreedi
153 Parur Synagogue to Be Restored
155 Cochin’s Jews: History’s Last Gasp—A Tribute to Samuel Hallegua (1930- 2009)
By Vinay La