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<p>Exploring a more inclusive Jewniverse, with Eylan Ezekiel.</p><p>Meeting fascinating guests, on a mission to understand the diverse histories and identities of Jewish people.</p><p>For more, join our community here https://linktr.ee/eylanezekielwhojew</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 26, 2026
Poetic Roots - Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
<h3>Our Guest</h3><p><br></p><p><a href="https://kavitaezekielpoetry.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca</a> is a poet, teacher and the daughter of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/09/guardianobituaries.india" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nissim Ezekiel</a>, widely regarded as the father of modern Indian poetry in English. Kavita means ‘Poem’ in Sanskrit. Born in Bombay into a Bene Israel family, Kavita grew up in multilingual family, encouraged to respect the many faiths in her community, and where her father made a deliberate choice not to follow the wave of Bene Israel emigration to Israel. His reason: if everyone goes, who stays and does something for this country? That question runs through this whole conversation.</p><br><p>Kavita now lives in Calgary, where she writes and teaches. Her poetry draws on her Bene Israel heritage, her multilingual childhood, and the kitchens, synagogues and village visits that shaped her sense of who she is. In this episode, she reads her poem Give Me Oil in My Lamp, which quietly captures what Jewish identity can look like when it has nothing to prove.</p><br><p><br></p><h3>Key Topics</h3><ul><li>Growing up Bene Israel in Bombay: religion, community and the world outside the door</li><li>Nissim Ezekiel and his choice to stay in India</li><li>Poetry as inheritance and practice</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3>Your Guide</h3><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/09/guardianobituaries.india" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004)</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Indian poet widely regarded as the father of modern Indian poetry in English. Born in Bombay into a Bene Israel family, he published his first collection A Time to Change in 1952 and went on to define a new idiom for Indian writing: rooted in the everyday, sceptical of abstraction, deeply Indian and specifically Jewish at the same time.</p><p><strong>Bene Israel:</strong> One of the oldest Jewish communities in India, traditionally believed to have arrived on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra over two thousand years ago, possibly following a shipwreck. The community developed distinct traditions, including Marathi as a communal language and the malida ceremony. </p><p><strong>Aliyah:</strong> Hebrew for ascent, and a word used for immigration to Israel. Following the Partition of India, and through the 1950s, a significant number of Bene Israel families made aliyah, reducing the Mumbai community considerably.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Konkan</strong></a><strong>:</strong> The coastal strip of western India running through Maharashtra. The traditional homeland of the Bene Israel community and the setting of the shipwreck legend that forms part of Bene Israel origin stories. The village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibag" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alibag</a>, which features in Kavita's poem, sits near this coast.</p><br><p><br></p><h3>Want to Learn More?</h3><p>If this conversation connected with you, these episodes are close neighbours:</p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/64ea76945f1fa000116b470e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Jalebi and Challah Sandwich (Season 1, Episode 2):</a> Penny interviews Eylan about his own Bene Israel and Ashkenazi heritage. The place to start if you want the context behind this episode.</p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/688383bde0a86cc3ab04df63" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Memory as Resistance (Season 2, Episode 7)</a>: Eliaz Reuben-Dandeker, Bene Israel historian and artist based in Israel, on preserving what remains of Bene Israel material culture and memory.</p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/681cadccbdc6024140623358" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Being Seen Matters (Season 2, Episode 1)</a>: Yaffa Judah on her Bene Israel, Moroccan and English heritage, and the work of making mixed Jewish identity legible in British communal life.</p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/65a16576c0bb66001753aa9d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Identity is Overrated (Season 1, Episode 7)</a>: Dr Ophira Gamliel on Yemeni heritage, Asian Jewish communities, and the politics of Jewish languages.</p><br><p><br></p><h3>References and Resources</h3><p><a href="https://kavitaezekielpoetry.com/publications/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca's collections: Light of the Sabbath (2021), A Musical Poet and Father (memoir), Family Sunday and Other Poems (1989). Available via her website and through online booksellers.</a></p><p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/collected-poems-9780195672497?cc=gb&lang=en&" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nissim Ezekiel's work is collected in Collected Poems 1952-1988 (Oxford University Press)</a>. <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/remembering-ezekiel-at-100-a-founding-father-of-indian-english-poetry/articleshow/116639281.cms" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This Times of India article celebrates his centenary.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.lockdownuniversity.org/faculty/10590-kenneth-robbins" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kenneth Robbins is a researcher and writer whose work on Indian Jewish communities includes field visits to Bene Israel sites along the Konkan coast and to the village of Alibag.</a></p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/eylanezekielwhojew" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find us elsewhere, here</a>!</p><br><p><strong>Show credits</strong></p><p>Host / Producer: Eylan Ezekiel</p><p>Post-production: <a href="https://communicating-for-impact.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Communicating for Impact</a></p><p>Artwork: <a href="https://www.emilytheodore.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Emily Theodore</a></p><p>Music: <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/muzaproduction-24990238/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=15167" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aleksafor utransndr Karabanov</a></p><p>Sound effects: <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/sergequadrado-24990007/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=13407" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Serge Quadrado</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. 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May 22, 2026
Baghdad to the Andes: Live! With Jordan Salama and Samantha Ellis
<p>Recorded live at <a href="https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week?utm_source=Website&utm_medium=Event%2BListing&utm_campaign=JBW%2B2026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jewish Book Week</a> in March 2026, this conversation brings together two writers whose books map Jewish histories that rarely make it onto the festival circuit. With a sold-out crowd at <a href="https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kings Place</a> in London, <a href="https://www.samanthaellis.me.uk/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samantha Ellis</a> and <a href="https://www.jordansalama.com/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jordan Salama</a> talk about language, loss, food, family archives, and what it means to carry more than one Jewish story at once.</p><br><p><strong>Our Guests</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.samanthaellis.me.uk/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samantha Ellis </a>is a playwright, journalist and author, the daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees. Her books include How to Be a Heroine and Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life. Her latest, <a href="https://www.samanthaellis.me.uk/chopping-onions-on-my-heart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chopping Onions on My Heart (published in the US as Always Carry Salt),</a> explores Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, a language on the verge of extinction, and what we can and cannot pass on to our children. She also worked on the first two Paddington films.</p><br><p><a href="https://www.jordansalama.com/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jordan Salama</a> is an award-winning writer whose journalism at The New Yorker covers migration, culture and the environment across the Americas. His second book, <a href="https://books.catapult.co/books/stranger-in-the-desert/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stranger in the Desert</a>, follows his great-grandfather's trail as a Syrian Jewish travelling salesman in the Argentine Andes in the 1920s, beginning with a binder of family history discovered in his grandfather's basement. </p><br><p><a href="https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week?utm_source=Website&utm_medium=Event%2BListing&utm_campaign=JBW%2B2026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Jewish Book Week</strong></a><strong> </strong>is London’s longest running literary festival, hosted by the Jewish Literary Foundation. It attracts award-winning authors and thinkers every year for an exciting programme of debates, talks, and performances at Kings Place, London and online. Find out more <a href="https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week?utm_source=Website&utm_medium=Event%2BListing&utm_campaign=JBW%2B2026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here. </a></p><br><p><strong>Key Topics</strong></p><ul><li>Arab Jews: why the term matters, why it's contested, and what it opens up</li><li>Jewish futures: a generational shift in who is telling these stories and why now</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Your Guide</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Arabic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Judeo-Iraqi Arabic</a>: the Jewish dialect of Arabic spoken by Iraqi Jews, now critically endangered</li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRKktjXDBET/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kubba shwandar:</a> Iraqi Jewish dumplings of lamb and rice, cooked in a sweet and sour beetroot sauce</li><li><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/syria-jews-argentina" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turcos</a>: the name given to Arabic-speaking Ottoman immigrants in Latin America, Jewish and Christian alike</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Want to learn more?</strong></p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/68c6a48124c6e67e685f3c4f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samantha Ellis appeared previously in Season 2: S2E5 Endangered, Not Erased </a></p><br><p>Explore related conversations on Iraqi/Sephardi identity:</p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/69eb752413963c02434b89d7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">S3 E2 Plural and Partial with Linda Dangoor </a></p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/68c6a772ac97a487dfb08074" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">S2 E9 Echoes of Aden at the Table with Claudia Mendoza </a></p><p><a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/658eea77293c0700167e9c4c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">S1 E6 Other Within the Other with Carol Isaacs</a></p><br><p><strong>Support the podcast!</strong></p><p>To help keep this project going:</p><ul><li>You can make a one-off donation of as little as<a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/whojewthinkyouare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> £5 at Buy Me a Coffee, </a></li><li>Or <a href="https://whojewthinkyouare.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">subscribe on Substack</a> </li></ul><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/eylanezekielwhojew" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find us elsewhere, here</a>!</p><br><p><strong>Show credits</strong></p><p>Host / Producer: Eylan Ezekiel</p><p>Post-production: <a href="https://communicating-for-impact.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Communicating for Impact</a></p><p>Artwork: <a href="https://www.emilytheodore.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Emily Theodore</a></p><p>Music: <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/muzaproduction-24990238/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=15167" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aleksafor utransndr Karabanov</a></p><p>Sound effects: <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/sergequadrado-24990007/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=13407" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Serge Quadrado</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. 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May 1, 2026
Plural and Partial - Linda Dangoor
<h2>Our Guest</h2><p>Linda Dangoor is a designer, painter and ceramicist, and the author of two cookbooks.<a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/flavours-of-babylon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Flavours of Babylon</a> (first published 2011) celebrates the recipes of her Baghdadi Jewish heritage. Her second book,<a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/from-the-tigris-to-the-thames/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> From the Tigris to the Thames</a> (<a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Green Bean Books</a>, 2025), is part memoir, part cookbook, tracing her journey from Baghdad through Beirut, London, Ibiza and Paris. Praised by Yotam Ottolenghi, Claudia Roden, Giles Coren and Nigella Lawson - and Eylan (!). Linda studied painting and graphic design at the Central School in London and is a member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.</p><p>Website:<a href="https://www.lindadangoor.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> lindadangoor.com</a> | Recipes:<a href="https://www.lindadangoorcooks.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> lindadangoorcooks.com</a> | Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lindadangoorcreativeliving/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lindadangoorcreativeliving</a></p><p> </p><p><br></p><h2>Key Topics</h2><p>• Food as identity: Why Linda argues food belongs to the place it comes from, not just the community that cooks it, and why she resists the label 'Jewish food'</p><p>• Fear and concealment: What it meant to be Jewish in mid-century Baghdad, the word Israel banned at Passover, and the cost of decades of keeping Jewish identity quiet</p><p>• Nostalgia versus memory: The distinction Linda draws between looking back with longing and simply saying how it was</p><p> </p><p><br></p><h2>Your Guide</h2><p>Short definitions and terms referenced in this episode:</p><p> </p><p>• <strong>Babylonian Jews</strong>: A Jewish community from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) who trace their origins to the exile of Judahite captives to Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Distinct from Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, though often grouped under the broader Mizrahi label</p><p>• <strong>T'beet</strong>: A traditional Iraqi Jewish Shabbat overnight dish. <a href="https://www.nigella.com/recipes/guests/linda-dangoors-overnight-chicken-buried-in-aromatic-rice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Recipe here</a></p><p>• <strong>'Our identity is at once plural and partial':</strong> A phrase from Salman Rushdie's 1982 essay<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v04/n18/salman-rushdie/imaginary-homelands" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Imaginary Homelands</a>, published in the London Review of Books. </p><p> </p><p><br></p><h2>Want to learn more?</h2><p>Explore past episodes that also reflect on displacement, Baghdadi Jewish heritage, and food as identity:</p><p>• <a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> S2E5: Endangered, Not Erased with Samantha Ellis</a>: Iraqi Jewish refugee heritage and the author of Chopping Onions on My Heart</p><p>• <a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> S2E9: I Tick a Lot of Boxes with Shelley Silas</a>: Baghdadi Jewish and Indian identity, playwright</p><p>• <a href="https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> S1E6: Other Within the Other with Carol Isaacs</a>: Iraqi Jewish heritage and The Wolf of Baghdad</p><p> </p><p><br></p><h2>References and Resources</h2><p>• <a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/from-the-tigris-to-the-thames/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> From the Tigris to the Thames</a> by Linda Dangoor <a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">(Green Bean Books</a>, 2025)</p><p>• <a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/flavours-of-babylon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Flavours of Babylon</a> by Linda Dangoor (<a href="https://greenbeanbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Green Bean Books</a>)</p><p>• <a href="https://www.lindadangoorcooks.com/blank-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Linda Dangoor's recipes</a> at lindadangoorcooks.com</p><p>• <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v04/n18/salman-rushdie/imaginary-homelands" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Imaginary Homelands</a> by Salman Rushdie, London Review of Books, 7 October 1982</p><p>• <a href="https://www.nigella.com/cookbook-corner/from-the-tigris-to-the-thames-by-linda-dangoor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Nigella Lawson's Cookbook Corner review</a> of From the Tigris to the Thames</p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/eylanezekielwhojew" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find us elsewhere, here</a>!</p><br><p><strong>Show credits</strong></p><p>Host / Producer: Eylan Ezekiel</p><p>Post-production: <a href="https://communicating-for-impact.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Communicating for Impact</a></p><p>Artwork: <a href="https://www.emilytheodore.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Emily Theodore</a></p><p>Music: <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/muzaproduction-24990238/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=15167" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aleksafor utransndr Karabanov</a></p><p>Sound effects: <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/sergequadrado-24990007/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=13407" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Serge Quadrado</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. 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