Esther David
Esther David | |
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| Born | 17 March 1945 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
| Occupation | Author, artist, sculptor |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda |
| Genre | Fiction, anthropology |
| Notable works | Book of Rachel |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award 2010 |
| Website | |
| estherdavid | |
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,
After her schooling in Ahmedabad, She was at
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 written several books. She had edited and contributed in some books also.[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
- Ahmedabad: City with a Past. HarperCollins Publishers India. 10 February 2016. ISBN 978-93-5029-798-8.
- The Walled City 1997 East West Books, Madras. Re-published by Syracuse University Press USA.[4]
- By the Sabarmati[10]
- The Book of Esther [10]
- Book of Rachel [10]
- My Father’s Zoo 2007 [6]
- Shalom India Housing Society 2007[10][11]
- One Church, One All Jewish Faith, One God 2008 Media Creations, Inc.[12]
- The Man with Enormous Wings 2010 Penguin Books[13]
- Bombay Brides 2019, Harpercollins [14]
- 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
- ^ 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. 2012 "The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context", Journal of Comparative Family Studies 43 (1): 71–80
- ^ Paniker, Shruti (14 February 2016). "Come, visit my city". Ahmedabad Mirror. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "City-based author wins Sahitya Akademi award". www.ndtv.com. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ Roland, Joan. 2009. "The Contributions of the Jews of India" in (ed) Shalva Weil India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; 3rd edn.].
- ^ a b "My Father's Zoo | Esther David | ISBN".
- ^ "Esther David Official". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ David, Esther. 2009. "Sari-Sutra: Bene Israel Costumes" in (ed) Shalva Weil India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; 3rd edn.].
- ^ "Esther David, Ahmedabad in US calendar on Jewish women writers". The Times of India. 26 September 2010. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "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.
- ISBN 9781558616455. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ISBN 9781595269775. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ISBN 9780143066927. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ "Bombay Brides".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Historique des bénéficiaires". Bienvenue sur le site de la maison des écrivains et de la littérature.
- ^ "Esther David". Meeting Saint Nazaire.
- ^ "They are not on facebook". India Today. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ "HBI Research Awards 2011" (PDF). Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
- ^ "HBI Research Awards 2016" (PDF). Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
Further reading
- 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.
