Books

  1. The History of the Bene Israel of India by Hyeem Samuel Kehimkar; The most authoritative book written about the community
  2. Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era by Joan G. Roland
  3. Genetics, Mass Media and Identity: A case study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba and Bene Israel by Tudor Parfitt
  4. India’s Bene Israel: A Comprehensive Inquiry and Sourcebook. By Shirley Isenberg
  5. Bene Israel of India: Some Studies by Benjamin Israel
  6. The Bene Israel of India: Images and Reality by Ezekiel Barber
  7. Children of Israel by Schifra Strizower
  8. Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers.
    An excellent book giving an insight into the Life and culture of the Jews of Cochin. By Ruby Daniel, Barbara Johnson
  9. Sephardic Cooking by Copeland Marks
  10. The Jew in the Lotus: A poet’s rediscovering of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India by Roger Kamenetz
  11. The Jews of India: A Story of Three Communities by Orpah Slapah
  12. Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl by Carmit Delman
  13. Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity (SUNY Series, The Margins of Literature) by Dorothy Ma Figuera
  14. Flowers in the Blood by Gay Courier
  15. The Bene Israel of India by Dr. Shalva Weil
  16. Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe by Hillel Halkin. A history of the Bnei Menashe.
  17. Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope by Jael Silliman
  18. The Jews of India : Their Story by Rachel Rukmini Israel
  19. Between Jerusalem and Benares : Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism Edited by Hananya Goodman
  20. India’s Jewish Heritage by T.V.Parsuram
  21. Historical Comparative Perspectives by Jonathan A. Goldstein
  22. Jewish Exile in India: by Anil Bhatti and Johannes H. Voigt
  23. The Mystery of Israel’s Ten Lost Tribes and the Legend of Jesus in India By Joshua M. Benjamin
  24. Indo Judaic Studies : Some Perspectives by David Ben Yohanan
  25. Africa Elites in India: Habshi Amarat by Kenneth X. Robbins and John McLeod
  26. The Jews in India and the Far East by James Henry Lord
  27. Jews in India by Thomas A. Timberg
  28. Demographic and Socio Economic Characteristics of Jews in India by Asha A. Bhende
  29. Black Jews of India by A.H Eichenberg
  30. The Jews of India: A Brief Summary by Maurice David Japheth
  31. The Literary Activities of the Arabic Speaking Jews in India by Walter Joseph Fischel
  32. Jews in China and India by Elijah Solomon
  33. Letters to a Buddhist Jew by Akiva Tatz, David Gottlieb
  34. Awas - The Growing-Up Years by Bunny Reuben
  35. The Heritage of the Bene Israel of India by Nissim Moses – An electronic publication of 5 CD-ROMs containing photographs, heritage information, recipes, and prayer songs.

Video Documentaries

  1. Salaam Shalom: The Jews of India by Vanessa C. Lauffer
  2. The Bene Israel: A Family Portrait by Karen Nathanson and Jean- Francois Fernandez
  3. The Cochin Jews of India by Dr. Johanna Spector
  4. The Bombay Jews
  5. About the Jews of India: Shanwar Telis/Bene Israel by Tana Hobart