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
