Esther David

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Esther David
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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OccupationAuthor, artist, sculptor
NationalityIndian
Alma materMaharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
GenreFiction, anthropology
Notable worksBook of Rachel
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award 2010
Website
estherdavid.com

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Esther David (born 17 March 1945) is an Indian Jewish author, an artist and a sculptor.[1] She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Early life

She was born into a Bene Israel Jewish family[2] in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.[3] She won Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 for The Book of Rachel.[4]

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

After her schooling in Ahmedabad, She was at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 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 the Sheth Chimanlal Nagindas Fine Arts College, CEPT University and NIFT.

She started writing about art and became the Times of India art critic, a national English daily. Later she became a columnist for Femina, 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 authored several books; and also been an editor and contributor.[8] Her books are related to Bene Israel Jews in Ahmedabad.[4]

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) featured Shalom India Housing Society in 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 was Jewish Women Writers and the Cities that Influence Them.[9]

Bibliography

Contributor
  • Sari Sutra, contributed a chapter on Bene Israeli Jewish 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

  • 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 Award 2010 for The 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 Jewish heritage in India.[19]
  • Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Research Award 2016 for Bene-Appetite (Research on Indian Jewish Food Traditions).[20]

See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weil, Shalva (2008). "Esther David: The Bene Israel Novelist who Grew Up with a Tiger". In Shulman, David; Weil, Shalva (eds.). Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 232–253.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weil, Shalva (2012). "The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context". Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 43 (1): 71–80.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Paniker, Shruti (14 February 2016). "Come, visit my city". Ahmedabad Mirror. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."City-based author wins Sahitya Akademi award". www.ndtv.com. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roland, Joan (2009) [2002]. "The Contributions of the Jews of India". In Weil, Shalva (ed.). India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle (3rd ed.). Mumbai: Marg Publications.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David, Esther. "My Father's Zoo". p. 124.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Esther David Official". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David, Esther (2009) [2002]. "Sari-Sutra: Bene Israel Costumes". In Weil, Shalva (ed.). India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle (3rd ed.). Mumbai: Marg Publications.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Esther David, Ahmedabad in US calendar on Jewish women writers". The Times of India. 26 September 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2012.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Esther David Books". Archived from the original on 2 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2012. 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. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David, Esther (April 2009). Shalom India Housing Society. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 9781558616455. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David, Esther (June 2008). One Church, One All Jewish Faith, One God. Media Creations, Incorporated. ISBN 9781595269775. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David, Esther (2010). The Man with Enormous Wings. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143066927. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bombay Brides".
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weil, Shalva (2009) [2002]. "The Heritage and Legacy of Indian Jews". In Weil, Shalva (ed.). India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle (3rd ed.). Mumbai: Marg Publications. pp. 8–21.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Historique des bénéficiaires". Bienvenue sur le site de la maison des écrivains et de la littérature. Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Esther David". Meeting Saint Nazaire. Archived from the original on 18 January 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."They are not on facebook". India Today. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."HBI Research Awards 2011" (PDF). Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."HBI Research Awards 2016" (PDF). Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.[dead link]

Further reading

  • Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weil, Shalva (2009) [2002]. "Bene Israel Rites and Routine". In Weil, Shalva (ed.). India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle (3rd ed.). Mumbai: Marg Publications. pp. 78–89. Reprinted in Marg: A Magazine of The Arts, 54(2): 26–37.
  • Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weil, Shalva (2011). "Bene Israel". In Baskin, Judith Baskin (ed.). Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 59.

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