Dr. Navras Aafreedi

Navras J. Aafreedi is an Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata, where he teaches a course each in Jewish History, Genocide Studies, Interfaith Relations and Minority Studies. He is the author of the monograph JEWS, JUDAIZING MOVEMENTS AND THE TRADITIONS OF ISRAELITE DESCENT IN SOUTH ASIA (New Delhi, 2016), several papers in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books published by prestigious international publishing houses. He has also published numerous articles and essays in quasi-academic publications, leading newspapers, and popular media. Other than English, his writings have also appeared in German, Spanish and Urdu. He writes on Indo-Judaic Studies, Interfaith Relations, Antisemitism Studies, Genocide Studies and Jewish Literary History, with focus on South Asia. He has spoken at scholarly forums in all continents except South America, and held visiting fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Tel Aviv and Sydney, and at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK. He earned his BA, MA and PhD from the University of Lucknow. Can be followed on Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Twitter, and YouTube.