Weil
Biographic Data
| ID | 2963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weil |
| FAMILY NAME | Weil |
| SIGNATURE | WEIL |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6784-3254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Effigies, religion and reversals in the celebration of Purim by Cochin Jews
An Indian Jewish Commandant and a Muslim Begum
This article explores the oral narratives about Samuel Ezekiel Divekar (1730–97), an officer in the British army and a member of the Bene Israel Indian Jewish community, who was released from the prison of Tipu Sultan (1751–99) by the Muslim ruler’s mother, Begum Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa. These foundational narratives are compared with non-native colonial and other sources, including manuscripts, books, letters and reports located in libraries and ar…
Oscillating diasporas, shifting identities
This article conceptualises diasporas and homelands not only through the lens of hybrid identities but also as complex locations which represent an intricate picture of oscillation between different points in time and space, which shift in response to broader political and global changes. Our case study is the Bene Israel (literally ‘Children of Israel’ in Hebrew) Indian Jews in Aden, who originated on the Konkan coast south of Bombay (today Mumb…
Targeting Femicide in War and Peace
Gendered pandemics
The purpose of this article is to offer a collocation of COVID-19 alongside two adjacent calamities that will likely increase during and after public health responses to the pandemic: suicide and femicide. Both of these forms of violence are patterned and predictable, both of them will manifest in divergent and distinct ways during the chaos of COVID-19, and both are highly gendered. In this article, we characterize the virus, theoretically align…
Female geronticide
This study of femicide involving elderly women, or female geronticide, aims to fill a gap in the research literature. The article is divided into three parts: a review of the literature on femicide, geronticide, and specifically female geronticide; a review of the literature utilizing Israel as a case-study and an empirical report on the findings of the first longitudinal study on female geronticide in Israel, which demonstrates that over a perio…
Femicide across Europe
From 2013 to 2017 she served as Chair of the Cost Action IS1206 on 'Femicide across Europe'.She has addressed the Parliaments of Portugal, Aragon (Spain) and Rome, and spoken at three UN meetings on femicide.She runs an empowerment programme for slum migrant women of Caucasian origin and has researched intimate partner femicide among Ethiopian immigrants in Israel.She has published over 100 journal articles, including 10 in scientific journals on…
Femicide across Europe
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings. This book is the first one on fem…
The Advantages of Qualitative Research into Femicide
This article reviews the state of the art of qualitative research on femicide, which, until the publication of this Special Issue, has been extremely sparse. The paper mentions some of the limitations of the qualitative approach, such as time consumption, ethical liabilities, and non-generalizability. However, it advocates qualitative research because of its advantages in capturing the context, describing the experience, identifying the motives, …
Femicide
Failed Femicides Among Migrant Survivors
Femicide—the killing of a female because of her gender—is becoming an increased object of sociological enquiry, rectifying years of invisibility. The article presents results from ethnographic interviews with three migrant women who survived “failed femicides.” A “failed femicide” is defined as an attempted femicide where the medical examination of the victim confirmed a life-threatening event, the victim had been hospitalized in emergency, and s…
Femicide of girls in contemporary India
While the study of femicide has progressed recently, research into the femicide of girls is still new. The femicide of girls is the murder of girls because they are girls, and because they would have grown up to be women. This article examines different forms of girl femicide in India, a country traditionally associated with sati and infanticide. Several types of femicide in India have been identified, ranging from foeticide to intimate partner f…
Femicide
Le fémicide est plus qu'un néologisme. Il désigne un phénomène violent et un meurtre intentionnel. Tous les fémicides sont l'expression d'une forme extrême de violence. Il s'agit d'une « pathologie sociale ». Nous devons donc lutter à l'échelle locale et mondiale contre ces crimes atroces et méprisables. Peu de sociétés sont épargnées par cette forme de violence. Nous devons donc décrire, analyser et rendre compte de ce phénomène. Cet article exp…
Making femicide visible
The sociological literature on femicide, compared to intimate partner and other forms of gender violence, is scarce. While feminist sociology has addressed the inaudibility of women, femicide remains invisible. Femicide rates are social facts worthy of sociological attention. Like suicide, femicide has to be defined and analysed according to type. The article postulates possible reasons for the invisibility of the phenomenon, such as the unpleasa…
Theories of femicide and their significance for social research
Almost four decades have passed since the term femicide was coined in 1976. This new word had a political purpose, in that it intended to produce changes in the social order which tolerated the violent death of women. Since that time, the word has generated a theoretical concept that encompasses the killing of a woman as a specific social phenomenon. Femicide is an effort in sociological imagination that has been successful in transforming conven…
The Bene Israel Indian Jewish family in Transnational Context
This paper traces the development of the Bene Israel family from Maharashtra in transnational context between the motherland India, and the fatherland, Israel, where the majority resides. The Bene Israel are unusual in that they are a group of Indian Jews, adhering to a monotheistic religion, yet culturally akin to Indians of other faiths. The article focuses upon family structure and residency in the wake of migration and Westernization. It is b…
On Multiple Modernities, Civilizations and Ancient Judaism
In this interview with Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, the author discusses with the great sociologist of civilizations the intellectual influences on his writings, and his progress since his early works on Israeli society. Eisenstadt analyzes multiple ‘modernities’ in the context of European society and the salience of solidarity and trust. One of the Axial Age civilizations that continues to fascinate Eisenstadt is India, the largest democracy in the w…
Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities
The Place of Alwaye in Modern Cochin Jewish History
New directions have been found in the study of Jewish topographies. This article attempts to relocalise Jewish space and move it beyond European and American cityscapes to encompass a wider Jewish geographical horizon. The article explores the summer resort of Alwaye (or Aluva), the holiday home to the Cochin (or Kochi) Jews of south India, as an example of a hitherto unexplored Jewish location. In this holiday space, social divisions influenced …
Homelands and diasporas
Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century
This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and
Ethiopian Jewish Women
Shalva Weil, Ethiopian Jewish Women: Trends and Transformations in the Context of Transnational Change, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, No. 8, Multiculturalism and Migration in Israel (Fall, 5765/2004), pp. 73-86
Lost Israelites From the Indo-Burmese Borderlands
This paper is an attempt to explain the conversion to Judaism by some members of tribal groups from the Indo-Burmese borderlands, who claim Israelite descent. In India, they are known collectively as the Shinlung; in Israel, they are called Bene Menasseh, or “Children of Menasseh”, linking them to the Biblical tribe. To date, some 700 Bene Menasseh have converted to Judaism by orthodox Rabbis in Israel. This article explores the connection betwee…
Dual Conversion Among the Shinlung of Northeast India
This article tracks the dual ethnic and religious metamorphosis of the Shinlung, a collectivity of tribes from Northeast India and Burma, to Christianity and then to Judaism. Conversion to Christianity took place after missionaries established themselves in the tribal areas in the second half of the nineteenth century. Conversion to Judaism among a minority during the last twenty years was the result of a general dissatisfaction with Christianity…
An Ethnographic Encounter
Theories of femicide and their significance for social research
Almost four decades have passed since the term femicide was coined in 1976. This new word had a political purpose, in that it intended to produce changes in the social order which tolerated the violent death of women. Since that time, the word has generated a theoretical concept that encompasses the killing of a woman as a specific social phenomenon. Femicide is an effort in sociological imagination that has been successful in transforming conven…
Making femicide visible
The sociological literature on femicide, compared to intimate partner and other forms of gender violence, is scarce. While feminist sociology has addressed the inaudibility of women, femicide remains invisible. Femicide rates are social facts worthy of sociological attention. Like suicide, femicide has to be defined and analysed according to type. The article postulates possible reasons for the invisibility of the phenomenon, such as the unpleasa…
The Language and Ritual of Socialisation
La celebration des anniversaires dans les jardins d'enfant, en Israel, est un rite national : le langage utilise lors de ce rituel represente une transposition des discours quotidiens dans un code plus elabore. Description du rituel, qui peut etre interprete comme un rite de passage et comme un mecanisme didactique apportant des informations sur les normes sociales
Music, Ritual and Falasha History
Femicide
Le fémicide est plus qu'un néologisme. Il désigne un phénomène violent et un meurtre intentionnel. Tous les fémicides sont l'expression d'une forme extrême de violence. Il s'agit d'une « pathologie sociale ». Nous devons donc lutter à l'échelle locale et mondiale contre ces crimes atroces et méprisables. Peu de sociétés sont épargnées par cette forme de violence. Nous devons donc décrire, analyser et rendre compte de ce phénomène. Cet article exp…
Failed Femicides Among Migrant Survivors
Femicide—the killing of a female because of her gender—is becoming an increased object of sociological enquiry, rectifying years of invisibility. The article presents results from ethnographic interviews with three migrant women who survived “failed femicides.” A “failed femicide” is defined as an attempted femicide where the medical examination of the victim confirmed a life-threatening event, the victim had been hospitalized in emergency, and s…
Femicide of girls in contemporary India
While the study of femicide has progressed recently, research into the femicide of girls is still new. The femicide of girls is the murder of girls because they are girls, and because they would have grown up to be women. This article examines different forms of girl femicide in India, a country traditionally associated with sati and infanticide. Several types of femicide in India have been identified, ranging from foeticide to intimate partner f…
Dual Conversion Among the Shinlung of Northeast India
This article tracks the dual ethnic and religious metamorphosis of the Shinlung, a collectivity of tribes from Northeast India and Burma, to Christianity and then to Judaism. Conversion to Christianity took place after missionaries established themselves in the tribal areas in the second half of the nineteenth century. Conversion to Judaism among a minority during the last twenty years was the result of a general dissatisfaction with Christianity…
Gendered pandemics
The purpose of this article is to offer a collocation of COVID-19 alongside two adjacent calamities that will likely increase during and after public health responses to the pandemic: suicide and femicide. Both of these forms of violence are patterned and predictable, both of them will manifest in divergent and distinct ways during the chaos of COVID-19, and both are highly gendered. In this article, we characterize the virus, theoretically align…
The Advantages of Qualitative Research into Femicide
This article reviews the state of the art of qualitative research on femicide, which, until the publication of this Special Issue, has been extremely sparse. The paper mentions some of the limitations of the qualitative approach, such as time consumption, ethical liabilities, and non-generalizability. However, it advocates qualitative research because of its advantages in capturing the context, describing the experience, identifying the motives, …
On Multiple Modernities, Civilizations and Ancient Judaism
In this interview with Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, the author discusses with the great sociologist of civilizations the intellectual influences on his writings, and his progress since his early works on Israeli society. Eisenstadt analyzes multiple ‘modernities’ in the context of European society and the salience of solidarity and trust. One of the Axial Age civilizations that continues to fascinate Eisenstadt is India, the largest democracy in the w…
The Place of Alwaye in Modern Cochin Jewish History
New directions have been found in the study of Jewish topographies. This article attempts to relocalise Jewish space and move it beyond European and American cityscapes to encompass a wider Jewish geographical horizon. The article explores the summer resort of Alwaye (or Aluva), the holiday home to the Cochin (or Kochi) Jews of south India, as an example of a hitherto unexplored Jewish location. In this holiday space, social divisions influenced …
Symmetry between Christians and Jews in India
Interrelation et points de ressemblance dans l'histoire, les usages, la tradition et la representation d'elles-memes de deux minorites religieuses du sud de l'Inde. Divers documents, notamment les collections de chants folkloriques des deux communautes, font apparaitre les symetries
Female geronticide
This study of femicide involving elderly women, or female geronticide, aims to fill a gap in the research literature. The article is divided into three parts: a review of the literature on femicide, geronticide, and specifically female geronticide; a review of the literature utilizing Israel as a case-study and an empirical report on the findings of the first longitudinal study on female geronticide in Israel, which demonstrates that over a perio…
Femicide
Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel
Targeting Femicide in War and Peace
Lost Israelites From the Indo-Burmese Borderlands
This paper is an attempt to explain the conversion to Judaism by some members of tribal groups from the Indo-Burmese borderlands, who claim Israelite descent. In India, they are known collectively as the Shinlung; in Israel, they are called Bene Menasseh, or “Children of Menasseh”, linking them to the Biblical tribe. To date, some 700 Bene Menasseh have converted to Judaism by orthodox Rabbis in Israel. This article explores the connection betwee…
The State of Research into Bene Israel Indian Jews
Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israel
The State of Research into Bene Israel Indian Jews
Family Perceptions among Pre-Adolescent Children in Israel
Family studies concentrating on power, conflict and exchange theory both tend to abscure "emic" approaches to the subject and contain inherent adult-centered biases. The study overcomes both these difficulties by employing a Q-technique whereby a sample of pre-adolescent children in Israel described their families as they perceive them both in the actual and in the ideal. The difference between actual and ideal perceptions, conceived as "perceptu…
Childminder
Symmetry between Christians and Jews in India
Interrelation et points de ressemblance dans l'histoire, les usages, la tradition et la representation d'elles-memes de deux minorites religieuses du sud de l'Inde. Divers documents, notamment les collections de chants folkloriques des deux communautes, font apparaitre les symetries
Women and language in Israel
The Effect of Ethnic Origin on Children's Perceptions of their Families
This paper investigates 'emically' whether ethnicity among second-and third-generation pre-adolescent Israeli children influences perceptions of their families. Q-methodology was employed to compare the actual and ideal family sorts of children from Ashkenazi, Iraqi and Moroccan backgrounds; 'factor arrays' were generated; and the average sorts of children were factor analysed in order to examine inter-ethnic relationships. The results show diffe…
The Language and Ritual of Socialisation
La celebration des anniversaires dans les jardins d'enfant, en Israel, est un rite national : le langage utilise lors de ce rituel represente une transposition des discours quotidiens dans un code plus elabore. Description du rituel, qui peut etre interprete comme un rite de passage et comme un mecanisme didactique apportant des informations sur les normes sociales
Music, Ritual and Falasha History
"It Is Futile to Trust in Man"
There is an extensive literature on Ethiopian Jews, but it contains remarkably few references to methodological problems in studying this population. This article explores the nature of the encounter between the researcher and Ethiopian Jews in their new setting in Israel, where the Ethiopian and the Israeli personalities are characterized by different and sometimes opposing qualities. The intentional use of ambiguities in Ethiopian communication…
Surviving Salvation
Religion, Blood and the Equality of Rights The Case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel
The legal status of Ethiopian Jews who were permitted to migrate to Israel is examined. I demonstrate that Ethiopian Jews formally equality of rights and responsibilities with other Jews in Israel in major spheres of life while in practice they are segregated giving rise to feelings of deprivation. On the one hand there is a policy of affirmative action whereby they receive preferential treatment in housing, education and other areas compared wit…
An Ethnographic Encounter
Dual Conversion Among the Shinlung of Northeast India
This article tracks the dual ethnic and religious metamorphosis of the Shinlung, a collectivity of tribes from Northeast India and Burma, to Christianity and then to Judaism. Conversion to Christianity took place after missionaries established themselves in the tribal areas in the second half of the nineteenth century. Conversion to Judaism among a minority during the last twenty years was the result of a general dissatisfaction with Christianity…
Ethiopian Jewish Women
Shalva Weil, Ethiopian Jewish Women: Trends and Transformations in the Context of Transnational Change, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, No. 8, Multiculturalism and Migration in Israel (Fall, 5765/2004), pp. 73-86
Lost Israelites From the Indo-Burmese Borderlands
This paper is an attempt to explain the conversion to Judaism by some members of tribal groups from the Indo-Burmese borderlands, who claim Israelite descent. In India, they are known collectively as the Shinlung; in Israel, they are called Bene Menasseh, or “Children of Menasseh”, linking them to the Biblical tribe. To date, some 700 Bene Menasseh have converted to Judaism by orthodox Rabbis in Israel. This article explores the connection betwee…
Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century
This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and
Homelands and diasporas
The Place of Alwaye in Modern Cochin Jewish History
New directions have been found in the study of Jewish topographies. This article attempts to relocalise Jewish space and move it beyond European and American cityscapes to encompass a wider Jewish geographical horizon. The article explores the summer resort of Alwaye (or Aluva), the holiday home to the Cochin (or Kochi) Jews of south India, as an example of a hitherto unexplored Jewish location. In this holiday space, social divisions influenced …
On Multiple Modernities, Civilizations and Ancient Judaism
In this interview with Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, the author discusses with the great sociologist of civilizations the intellectual influences on his writings, and his progress since his early works on Israeli society. Eisenstadt analyzes multiple ‘modernities’ in the context of European society and the salience of solidarity and trust. One of the Axial Age civilizations that continues to fascinate Eisenstadt is India, the largest democracy in the w…
Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities
The Bene Israel Indian Jewish family in Transnational Context
This paper traces the development of the Bene Israel family from Maharashtra in transnational context between the motherland India, and the fatherland, Israel, where the majority resides. The Bene Israel are unusual in that they are a group of Indian Jews, adhering to a monotheistic religion, yet culturally akin to Indians of other faiths. The article focuses upon family structure and residency in the wake of migration and Westernization. It is b…
Failed Femicides Among Migrant Survivors
Femicide—the killing of a female because of her gender—is becoming an increased object of sociological enquiry, rectifying years of invisibility. The article presents results from ethnographic interviews with three migrant women who survived “failed femicides.” A “failed femicide” is defined as an attempted femicide where the medical examination of the victim confirmed a life-threatening event, the victim had been hospitalized in emergency, and s…
Femicide of girls in contemporary India
While the study of femicide has progressed recently, research into the femicide of girls is still new. The femicide of girls is the murder of girls because they are girls, and because they would have grown up to be women. This article examines different forms of girl femicide in India, a country traditionally associated with sati and infanticide. Several types of femicide in India have been identified, ranging from foeticide to intimate partner f…
Femicide
Le fémicide est plus qu'un néologisme. Il désigne un phénomène violent et un meurtre intentionnel. Tous les fémicides sont l'expression d'une forme extrême de violence. Il s'agit d'une « pathologie sociale ». Nous devons donc lutter à l'échelle locale et mondiale contre ces crimes atroces et méprisables. Peu de sociétés sont épargnées par cette forme de violence. Nous devons donc décrire, analyser et rendre compte de ce phénomène. Cet article exp…
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (23 works) · History (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (13 works) · History (12 works) · Femicide (11 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (10 works) · Poison control (10 works)