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Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14057

The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of differen... Read More about Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue.

Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory, 24(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231179520

Building upon ethnographic research conducted among participants in UK-based initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the paper contributes to anthropological literature on the essentialising nature of state-sponsored constructions of minoritised group... Read More about Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom.

‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity (2022)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2022). ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity. In B. Gidley, & S. S. Everett (Eds.), Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience (231-249). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514331_012

Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens.... Read More about ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity.

Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race (2018)
Book
Egorova, Y. (2018). Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199856237.001.0001

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitudes towards one another do not often make headlines. In the European imagination, Jews and Muslims have b... Read More about Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race.

The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context (2017)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y., & Ahmed, F. (2017). The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context. In J. Renton, & B. Gidley (Eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe : a shared story? (283-301). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41302-4_11

The relationship between the Jewish and Muslim communities of Europe is often constructed by public discourse as polarised due to the Israel–Palestine conflict. Indeed, in the summer of 2014, the mass media presented numerous reports suggesting that... Read More about The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context.

Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe (2015)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2015). Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe. American Anthropologist, 117(3), 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12293

The Bene Menashe stem from a number of Christian groups of the Indo-Burmese borderland, some of whom back in the 1950s declared their descent from the Lost Tribes of Israel. In this article, I will use the example of the Bene Menashe migration to Isr... Read More about Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe.

Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative (2014)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2014). Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative. In N. Valman, & L. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of contemporary Jewish cultures (353-364). Routledge

In June 2010 two papers appeared in major scientific journals - Nature and the American Journal of Human Genetics – which attempted to address the question about the “genetic structure” of the Jewish people (Behar et al 2010; Atzmon et al 2010). Both... Read More about Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative.

The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia (2013)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2013). The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia, 21(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.826627

Drawing on two ethnographic examples of the sociocultural aspects of populations genetic research in India, the article explores in what ways tests aimed at assessing ‘genetic differences’ between populations can be viewed as enabling or disempowerin... Read More about The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia.

Old memories, new histories: (re)discovering the past of Jewish Dalits (2012)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y., & Perwez, S. (2012). Old memories, new histories: (re)discovering the past of Jewish Dalits. History and Anthropology, 23(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2012.649272

This paper explores processes of self-identification and constructions of historical memory among the Bene Ephraim of Andhra Pradesh, a community of former Madiga untouchables who came to practising Judaism in the late 1980s. Our discussion is based... Read More about Old memories, new histories: (re)discovering the past of Jewish Dalits.

DNA, Authentizitat und historisches Gedachtnis. (2011)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2011). DNA, Authentizitat und historisches Gedachtnis. In M. Sommer, & G. Kruger (Eds.), Biohistorische Anthropologie: Knochen, Korper und DNA in Erinnerungskulturen (33-54). Kadmos

The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh (2010)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y., & Perwez, S. (2010). The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh. Anthropology Today, 26(6), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00770.x

The article focuses on the community of Bene Ephraim (the Children of Ephraim, in Hebrew), who in the late 1980s declared that they belonged to the Lost Tribes of Israel. This group stems from a community of the Madiga untouchables of Andhra Pradesh... Read More about The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh.

DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates (2010)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2010). DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates. BioSocieties, 5(3), 348-365. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2010.18

The article explores how the relationship between genetics and history is performed in genetics studies that aim to reconstruct human migrations. It focuses on two case studies: research on the nature of genetic diversity of South Asian populations a... Read More about DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates.

Castes of genes? Representing human genetic diversity in India (2010)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2010). Castes of genes? Representing human genetic diversity in India. Genomics, society and policy, 6(3), 32-49. https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-5354-6-3-32

This paper explores the historical and social context of population genetic research conducted in India by focusing on a study by Reich et al which aimed to reconstruct Indian population history. The paper addresses two themes. First, it considers th... Read More about Castes of genes? Representing human genetic diversity in India.

From Dalits to Bene Ephraim: Judaism in Andhra Pradesh (2010)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2010). From Dalits to Bene Ephraim: Judaism in Andhra Pradesh. Religions of South Asia, 4(1), 105-124

The community of Bene-Ephraim was established in the late 1980s in Andhra Pradesh by a group of Christianised Madiga who declared that they belonged to one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. The paper explores the extent to which Bene Ephraim narratives o... Read More about From Dalits to Bene Ephraim: Judaism in Andhra Pradesh.

De/geneticizing caste: population genetic research in South Asia (2009)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2009). De/geneticizing caste: population genetic research in South Asia. Science as Culture, 18(4), 417-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505430902806975

Recent years have witnessed a number of population genetics studies aiming to explore the ‘genetic profile’ of the South Asian population and of the caste system. This paper examines four genetic studies and their mass media representations, and disc... Read More about De/geneticizing caste: population genetic research in South Asia.