"The contributors to this book met at the first Conference on the Jews of Goa, which I convened at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East at Jerusalem, during 18-19 December 2016"--Page xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Jews of Goa : an introduction / Shalva Weil -- Jews of Goa and the trading world of the Indian Ocean, 1000-1650 / Pius Malekandathil -- Behind the curtain of the Inquisition : new Christians and Jews in India in the mid-sixteenth century / Ana Canas D. Martins -- The 'Law of Moses' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Goa / Moisés Orfali -- 'Desengano de perdidos' : social definitions and quest for identity in sixteenth-century Portuguese India / Joao Teles e Cunha -- The Jews in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Goa / José Alberto R. da Silva Tavim -- All roads lead to Goa : messengers, interpreters, Jewish and new Christian informants in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century / Dejanirah Couto -- The many lives of the Portuguese-Jewish physician Garcia de Orta : a historiographical perspective / Palmira Fontes da Costa -- The resonance of Dellon's account of the Goa Inquisition among Reformed Christians and Jews in Amsterdam / Myriam Silvera -- The enigma of the Jews of Goa / Shalva Weil.