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Esther David
Born(1945-03-17)17 March 1945(age 79)
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
OccupationAuthor, artist, sculptor
NationalityIndian
Alma materMaharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
GenreFiction,anthropology
Notable worksBook of Rachel
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award2010
Website
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Esther David(born 17 March 1945) is anIndian Jewishauthor, an artist and a sculptor.[1]She is a recipient of theSahitya Akademi Award.

Early life[edit]

She was born into aBene IsraelJewish family[2]inAhmedabad,Gujarat.[3]She wonSahitya Akademi Awardin 2010 forThe Book of Rachel.[4]

Her father,Reuben David,was a hunter-turned-veterinarian, who founded the Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden and Balvatika nearKankarialake in Ahmedabad.[5]Her mother, Sarah, was a school teacher.[6]

After her schooling in Ahmedabad, She was atMaharaja Sayajirao UniversityofBaroda,as a student of Fine Arts and Art History. There she met Sankho Chaudhary, a sculptor, who taught her sculpture and Art History.[4]After her graduation she returned to Ahmedabad and started her career as a professor in art history and art appreciation. She taught at theSheth Chimanlal Nagindas Fine Arts College,CEPT UniversityandNIFT.

She started writing about art and became theTimes of Indiaart critic, a national English daily. Later she became a columnist forFemina,a women's magazine, the "Times of India" and other leading national dallies. She is an advisory editor of Eve Times, Ahmedabad.[7]She has written several books. She had edited and contributed in some books also.[8]Her books are related to Bene Israel Jews inAhmedabad.[4]

TheHadassah-Brandeis Institute(HBI) featuredShalom India Housing Societyin the Hasassah-Brandeis 2010–2011 calendar, which highlights 12 Jewish women authors across the world whose "writing illuminates a particular city". The title of the calendar wasJewish Women Writers and the Cities that Influence Them.[9]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Ahmedabad: City with a Past.HarperCollins Publishers India. 10 February 2016.ISBN978-93-5029-798-8.
  • The Walled City1997 East West Books, Madras. Re-published bySyracuse University PressUSA.[4]
  • By the Sabarmati[10]
  • The Book of Esther[10]
  • Book of Rachel[10]
  • My Father’s Zoo2007[6]
  • Shalom India Housing Society2007[10][11]
  • One Church, One All Jewish Faith, One God2008 Media Creations, Inc.[12]
  • The Man with Enormous Wings2010Penguin Books[13]
  • Bombay Brides2019, Harpercollins[14]
Contributor
  • Sari Sutra,contributed a chapter onBene IsraeliJewish costumes.[15]
  • City Stories"The Worry Box and The Laughing Lady" Scholastic India.[10]
  • Growing Up as a Woman Writer"Nanki Chirai" Sahitya Academy New Delhi.[10]
  • Gattu's Wildlife Adventures[10]
Editor
  • Ane Dhara Dhruji[10]

Awards and recognition[edit]

  • Writer in Residence at Villa Mont Noir, France in 1999–2000.[16]
  • Writer in Residence, Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs, Saint-Nazaire, France in 2001–2002.[17]
  • Sahitya Akademi Award2010 forThe Book of Rachel.[4][18]
  • Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Research Award 2011 for"I am the seed of the Tree…," A Jewish woman’s search of her Jewishheritage in India.[19]
  • Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Research Award 2016 forBene-Appetite (Research on Indian Jewish Food Traditions).[20]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Weil, Shalva. 2008 'Esther David: The Bene Israel Novelist who Grew Up with a Tiger' in David Shulman and Shalva Weil (eds) Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 232–253.
  2. ^Weil, Shalva. 2012 "The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context", Journal of Comparative Family Studies 43 (1): 71–80
  3. ^Paniker, Shruti (14 February 2016)."Come, visit my city".Ahmedabad Mirror.Retrieved28 March2016.
  4. ^abcde"City-based author wins Sahitya Akademi award".ndtv.22 December 2010.Retrieved6 October2012.
  5. ^Roland, Joan. 2009. "The Contributions of the Jews of India" in (ed) Shalva WeilIndia's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle,Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; 3rd edn.].
  6. ^ab"My Father's Zoo | Esther David | ISBN".
  7. ^"Esther David Official".Archived fromthe originalon 19 July 2012.Retrieved5 October2012.
  8. ^David, Esther. 2009. "Sari-Sutra: Bene Israel Costumes" in (ed) Shalva WeilIndia's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle,Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; 3rd edn.].
  9. ^"Esther David, Ahmedabad in US calendar on Jewish women writers".The Times of India.26 September 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 3 January 2013.Retrieved6 October2012.
  10. ^abcdefgh"Esther David Books".Archived fromthe originalon 2 September 2013.Retrieved5 October2012.For a review, please refer to: Weil, Shalva. 2003 The Book of Esther by Esther David, reviewed in Biblio: A Review of Books, New Delhi: Manohar, p. 26.
  11. ^David, Esther (April 2009).Shalom India Housing Society.The Feminist Press at CUNY.ISBN9781558616455.Retrieved5 October2012.
  12. ^David, Esther (June 2008).One Church, One All Jewish Faith, One God.Media Creations, Incorporated.ISBN9781595269775.Retrieved5 October2012.
  13. ^David, Esther (2010).The Man with Enormous Wings.Penguin Books.ISBN9780143066927.Retrieved5 October2012.
  14. ^"Bombay Brides".
  15. ^Weil, Shalva. 2009 'The Heritage and Legacy of Indian Jews' in Shalva Weil (ed.) India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle,Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; 3rd edn.], pp. 8–21.
  16. ^"Historique des bénéficiaires".Bienvenue sur le site de la maison des écrivains et de la littérature.
  17. ^"Esther David".Meeting Saint Nazaire.
  18. ^"They are not on facebook".India Today.14 January 2011.Retrieved6 October2012.
  19. ^"HBI Research Awards 2011"(PDF).Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
  20. ^"HBI Research Awards 2016"(PDF).Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Further reading[edit]

  • Weil, Shalva. 2008 'Esther David: The Bene Israel Novelist who Grew Up with a Tiger' in David Shulman and Shalva Weil (eds)Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India,New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 232–253.
  • Weil, Shalva. 2009 'Bene Israel Rites and Routines' in Shalva Weil (ed.)India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle,Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; 3rdedn.], 78–89. Reprinted in Marg: A Magazine of The Arts, 54(2): 26–37
  • Weil, Shalva. 'Bene Israel' in Judith Baskin (ed.)Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture,New York: Cambridge University Press.2011,pp 59.

External links[edit]

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