NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education
Hebrew University
Mt Scopus
Jerusalem
Israel

Tel/Fax:2-5882100
e-mail: msshalva@mscc.huji.ac.il

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dept. of Education-Senior Lecturer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education-Senior Researcher
   -  Academic Director, Program for Training Ethiopian Immigrants as Teachers

SELECTED RELEVANT POSITIONS
Founding Chairperson: Israel-India Cultural Association
International scientific coordinator, Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jews
Delegate to the Permanent Council of the International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)

EDITORIAL POSITIONS WITH SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

General Editor-World Heritage Press: Hindu-Judaic Studies Series
Editor  - Hindu-Jewish dialogue- International Journal of Hindu Studies

Member editorial board -  Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies
Member editorial board - South Asian Anthropology

Courses at Ben-Gurion University, Dept. of Education:
-Jewish Education in non-Western Societies.
-Qualitative Methods (with special multi-cultural emphasis)

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Books

1999 Roots and Routes: Ethnicity and Migration in Global Perspective (S. Weil ed.), Jerusalem: The Magnes Press,
The Hebrew University.

1997  Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight (S. Weil ed.), Jerusalem:  NCJW
Research Institute for Innovation in Education, Hebrew University (Hebrew).

1984  From Cochin to Israel, (S. Weil ed.) Jerusalem: Kumu Berina (Hebrew).

Monographs

1998 Ethiopian High School Graduates  of the Educational System in Israel,
1987-1989: Past, Present and Future, Jerusalem: The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, The Hebrew University (Hebrew).

1991 One-Parent Families among Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel, Jerusalem: The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, The Hebrew University   (Hebrew).

1990 The Changing Religious Tradition of Ethiopian Jews in Israel: a Teachers� Guide, Jerusalem: The Ministry of Education & Culture & The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, The Hebrew University (Hebrew).

1989 The Religious Practices & Beliefs of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, Jerusalem: The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, The Hebrew University (Hebrew) (Second edition).

1985 The Dynamics of Community Schools in Israel: an Ethnography, Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, The Hebrew University (Hebrew).

Edited journal:
1996 Guest editor, Special Issue on Ethiopian Jewry, Israel Social Science Research, Vol. 10,  No.2.

Articles in Scientific Journals:
1999 �Flora Samuel�, Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2: 150-151.
1999 �An Ethnographic Encounter�, Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 24, No.2: 189.
1997a  �Religion, Blood and the Equality of Rights: The Case of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel,� International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 4: 397-412.
1997b  "Changing of the Guard: Leadership among Ethiopian Jews in Israel", Journal of Social Studies, Vol. 1, No.4: 301-307.
1997c  �Introduction: Ethiopian Jews in the Limelight,� in Shalva Weil (ed.). Special  Issue on Ethiopian Jewry, Israel Social Science Research, Vol. 10, No.2: iii-viii.
1997d  �Collective Designations and Collective Identity among Ethiopian Jews,� in Shalva Weil, ibid: pp.25-40.
1996  �Religious Leadership vs. Secular Authority: the Case of the Bene Israel", The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 49, Nos. 3& 4: 301-316 .
1995 �It Is Futile to Trust in Man: Methodological Difficulties in Studying Non- Mainstream Populations with Reference to Ethiopian Jews in Israel,� Human Organisation, Vol. 54, No.1:1-9.
1994  �The Secular & Religious Elite among the Bene Israel (Indian Jews)� Pe�amim 60:49-63 (Hebrew).
1991  �Beyond the Sambatyon: the Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes,� Ariel,  Nos. 85-86:25-31.
1989 �Ethiopian Jews in Israel: A Survey of Research & Documentation,� Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Review, Vol. II, No. 1-2:28-32.
1987a �An Elegy in Amharic on Dr. Faitlovitch�, Pe�amim 33:125-127 (Hebrew).
1987b �In Memoriam: Yona Bogale,� Pe�amim 33:140-144 (Hebrew).
1986 �The Language & Ritual of socialization: Birthday Parties in a Kindergarten Context,� Man (N.S.) Vol.21:329-341.
1983a �Women & Language in Israel,� International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 41:77-91.
1983b �The Effect of Ethnic Origin on Children�s Perceptions of their Families,� Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. XIV, No.3: 347-366.
1982 �Symmetry between Christians and Jews in India: the Cnanite Christians and the Cochin Jews of Kerala,�  Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 2: 175-196.
1981  �Family Perceptions among Pre-Adolescent Children in Israel,� (in collaboration with Rami Benbenishty), in F. Martinson ed., �Special Issue: The Child & the Family,� in Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Vol. XII, No. 1:51-61.
1980a �The State of Research into Bene Israel Indian Jews,�  Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol XVII, No.4:397-408.
1980b �Literature of Jews of India,� in H. Jason ed., �Folk Literature of the People of Israel,� in  Journal of Indian Folkloristics, Vol. 3, No. 5/6: 58-71.
1977a �Names & Identity among the Bene Israel,� Ethnic Groups, Vol. I, No.3: 201-219.
1977b �Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel,�  International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 13:71-85.
1977c �Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel,� Linguistics Vol.193:71-85.
1974  �Bene Israel in Britain,�  New Community, Vol.3, Nos. 1-2: 87-91.

Chapters in scientific books:
1999 �Collective Rights and Perceived Inequality: The Case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel�, in Tim Allen and John Eade eds. Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict, The Hauge/London/Boston: Kluwer Law International, pp.127-144.
1999 �From Persecution to Freedom: Central European Jewish Refugees and their Jewish Host Communities in India�, in Anil Bhatti and Johannes H. Voigt eds. Jewish Exile in India 1933-1945, New Delhi: Manohar and Max Mueller Bhavan, p.64-86.
1999 �The Life and Death of Solomon Isaac�, in Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi eds. The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on the Ethiopian Jews, London: Curzon Press, pp.40-49.
1996  �Double Conversion among the �Children of Menasseh,�� in Georg Pfeffer & Deepak Kumar Behera eds. Contemporary Society Tribal Studies, New Delhi: Concept, pp.84-102.
1994 �Yom Kippur: the Festival of Closing the Doors,� in Hananya Goodman ed. Between Jerusalem & Benares: comparative Studies in Judaism & Hinduism,  State University of New York Press, pp.85-100.
1993  �Women & Language in Israel,� in Yael Azmon & Dafna N. Izraeli eds. Women in Israel, New Brunswick & London: Transaction Publishers, pp.363-377.
1988 �Proximal Households� among Bene Israel Indian Jews in Israel�; in Lea Shamgar-Handelman & Rosella Palomba eds. Alternative Patterns of Family Life in Modern Societies, Roma: Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche, Institute di Recerche Sulta Popolazione, pp.87-103.
1986a �Anthropology becomes Home: Home becomes Anthropology,� in Anthony Jackson ed.,  Anthropology at Home, ASA Monograph No. 25, London: Tavistock Publications  pp.196-212. .
1986b �A Comparison of Christians & Jews in South India,� in Tim Timberg ed.,  The Jews of India, Delhi: Vikas Publication  pp.177-204..
1986c �An Overview of Research on the Bene Israel,� in Tim Timberg ed., ibid.  pp.12-27.
1985 �Ethnicity & the Family: a Q-study of  Israeli Children,� in Alex Weingrod ed., Studies in Israeli Ethnicity: After the Ingathering, New York: Gordon & Breach  pp.81-103.
1984  �Interpersonal Relations & Uses of Language among Bene Israel in Israel,� in Shlomo Deshen & Moshe Shokeid eds., Oriental Jews, Jerusalem: Schocken, pp.306-311 (Hebrew).
1982 �Contacts Between the Bene Israel and the Holy Land from the Eighth Century B.C.E. until 1948: An Ethno-historical Perspective,� in I. Ben-Ami ed., The Sephardi & Oriental Jewish Heritage, Jerusalem:  Magnes Press, The Hebrew University,  1982, pp.165-178.

Encyclopaedia Entries:
1999 �Ethiopia�, Reader�s Guide to Judaism, (Michael Terry ed.), (forthcoming)
1997  �Bene Israel�, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, (R.J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder eds. in chief),  New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 113.
1996 �Ethiopian Jews�, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, (Reeva S. Simon, Philip  Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet eds.), New York: Macmillan,Vol. 2:624-5.
1996 �Bene Israel�, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, (Reeva S. Simon, Philip  Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet eds.), New York: Macmillan, Vol. 1: 1994a �India, Zionism  In�, �Indian Jews in Israel�, Encyclopaedia of Zionism and Israel (Geoffrey Wigoder ed.) Associated University Presses, pp. 651-653.
1994b �Ten Tribes�; �Bene Israel�;  Encyclopaedia of Judaism, (Geoffrey Wigoder ed.) Jerusalem: Keter, pp. 99, 475 (Hebrew).
1992  �Bene Israel�, �Cochin Jews,� Encyclopaedia of World Cultures, (Paul Hockings ed.) Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall & Co., Vol. 3:27-29 & 71-73.
1989 �Bene Israel�; �Ethiopian Jews�; �Lost Tribes�, Encyclopaedia of Judaism, (Geoffrey Wigoder ed.) Jerusalem Publishing House, pp. 109-110.

Book Reviews:
1999 The Inter-Cultural Experience- a Reader in Anthropology  by Moshe Shokeid and Shlomo Deshen eds. (Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv: Shocken, 1988) Pe�amim, Vol. 77: 152-154 (Hebrew).
1998  Jews of the Raj by Mavis Hyman (London: Hyman Publishers, 1996) The Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1:105-107.
1997 Torah and Veda by Barbara Holdrege (State University of New York Press, Albany), International Journal of Hindu Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2: 427-428.
1995  Surviving Salvation by Ruth Westheimer & Steve Kaplan (New York University Press, 1993), Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol.25, No.1:111-112.
1989 Music, Ritual & Falasha History by Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Michigan State University, 1986), Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 19, No.3:276-280.
1985 The Bene Israel of India by Benjamin J. Israel (Bombay: Orient Longman, 1984), Asian & African Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1:131-132.
1981 Childminder by Brian & Sonia Jackson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), Journal of Marriage & the Family, Vol. 43, No.1:227-229.

Museum Catalogues
1991 Beyond the Sambatyon: the Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes, Tel-Aviv: Beth  Hatefutsoth,  the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.

1989 Beta Israel: A House Divided, Binghamton State University of  New York.

1981 The Jews from the Konkan: the Bene Israel Community of India, Tel-Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.

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