Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Situating the Project: Personal and Collective Dimensions; 2 The Hindu-Jewish Encounter: The Present Context; 3 The Jews of India: What Can We Learn from Them?; 4 Sarmad the Jew: A Precursor of the Encounter; 5 Judaism(s) and Hinduism(s); 6 Judaism and Hinduism: Insights from the Comparative Study of Religion; 7 The Passage to India: The Quest for Spirituality; 8 Saints: Encountering the Divine in Humanity; 9 The Wisdom of India: Ancient Images and Contemporary Challenges

10 The Encounter within: Hinduism and Confi gurations of Jewish Identity11 The Encounter Becomes Official: Hindu-Jewish Summits; 12 Hinduism and a Jewish Theology of Religions; 13 Summary and a Personal Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Introduction
Chapter 1. Situating the project: personal and collective dimensions
Chapter 2: The Hindu-Jewish encounter: the present context
Chapter 3: The Jews of India: what can we learn from them?
Chapter 4: Sarmad the Jew: a precursor of the encounter
Chapter 5: Judaism(s) and Hinduism(s)
Chapter 6: Judaism and Hinduism: insights from the comparative study of religion
Chapter 7: The passage to India, the quest for spirituality
Chapter 8: Saints: encountering the divine in humanity
Chapter 9: The wisdom of India: ancient images and contemporary challenges
Chapter 10: The encounter within: Hinduism and configurations of Jewish identity
Chapter 11: The encounter becomes official: Hindu-Jewish summits
Chapter 12: Hinduism and a Jewish theology of religions
Summary and a personal epilogue.