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In her poetry, Zilka Joseph channels the stories of her Bene Israel ancestors in India

JL;DR SUMMARY Zilka Joseph, an author and poet from the Bene Israel Jewish community in India, shares stories of her ancestors and personal experiences in her poetry collection, "Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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IdentityDiasporaPoetryCultural IntegrationColonial InfluenceJewish IndianBene IsraelZilka JosephIndian Jewish HistorySweet Malida

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