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A considerable detour is needed before it is possible to approach the question of Jewish interest in Asia, and more particularly India, at least so far as a certain group of thinkers was concerned. The theme is complicated by the fact that, from a Jewish perspective, ‘the East’ has three separate associations. The first is the obvious matter of geographical location, that is all that falls east of Suez. The second concerns Eastern Jewry and the connotation of the Ostjude both as a self-referring term and as used by Jews in the west, especially German Jews. The third connotation is graven in the minds and hearts of those who survived the Shoah. The ‘east’ meant Auschwitz and the other camps which spelt the last stop on the road to extinction. In what follows, the first two of these will be looked into by way of introduction.
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Chatterjee, M. (1997). Jewry and ‘the Orient’. In: Studies in Modern Jewish and Hindu Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372856_3
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