Event: Being Indian, Being Israeli: A conversation with Dr. Maina Singh and Sally Oren

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Place: Butler Board Room, Center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington, DC

Mrs. Sally Oren, wife of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren and an immigrant herself, will discuss with Dr. Maina Singh themes of Zionist immigrant experience raised in Dr. Singh’s new book, Being Indian, Being Israeli: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland, based on ethnographic research and over 150 interviews among Indian Jewish communities in Israel.

Dr. Singh is Clendenen Scholar-in-residence at American University.

A dessert reception will follow, with books available for purchase

Check out: “Subject to bias, India’s Jews make a go of living in Israel Scholar presents ‘Being Indian, Being Israeli'”

P.S. Can someone keep me posted for when the book goes on sale?