Prof SJ Weil

Qualifications

• D. Phil. (Sussex University, UK)
• M.A. (Sussex University, UK)
• B.A. Sociology (LSE, UK)

Fields of academic interests

• Social anthropology.
• Sociology.

Field of Specialisation

• Ethnicity (Ethiopian Jews, Indian Jews).
• Gender (Femicide).
• Ritual (Bible, rites of passage).

Books

• Shulman, D. and Weil, S. 2008 Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Weil, S. 2009 (Third reprint) India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle, Mumbai: Marg Publications [first published in 2002; second reprint 2004].
• Trevisan Semi, E.and Weil, S. 2011 Beta Israel: the Jews of Ethiopia and Beyond, Venice: Cafoscarina.
• Weil, S., Corradi, C. and Naudi, M.2018 Femicide across Europe: theory, research and prevention, University of Bristol: Policy Press.

Select book chapters:

• Weil, S. 2016a “The Unification of the Ten Lost Tribes with the Two “Found” Tribes”. In: Parfitt, T and Fisher N (eds) Becoming Jewish: New Jews and Emerging Jewish Communities in a Globalized World, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 25-35.
• Weil, S. 2016b “The Complexities of Conversion among the ‘Felesmura’”. In: Eloi Ficquet, Ahmed Hassen and Thomas Osmond (eds.), Movements in Ethiopia, Ethiopia in Movement: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Addis Ababa: French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Addis Ababa University; Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers, Vol. 1 pp.435-445. http://www.store.tsehaipublishers.com/images/EF-ICES_Flyer.pdf
• Weil, S. and Mitra, N. 2016c ‘Femicide of Girls in India’. In:  Edited by: Veronika Bezinsky, Andrada Filip, Luma Kamel, Claire Laurent, Saide Mobayed, Kathryn Platzer, Michael Platzer eds. Femicide 6: Violence against Girls in Flight. Vienna: ACUNS.  http://acuns.org/femicide-volume-vi-violence-against-girls-in-flight/
• Weil, S. 2018a 'Indian Judaic Traditions' (new edition). In: Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (eds) Religions in South Asia, New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, pp.186-205.
• Weil, S. 2018b “Ermias Essayas: A ‘Forgotten’ Ethiopian Jew in Jerusalem”. In: Dario Miccoli, Marcella Simoni and Giorgia Foscarini (eds.) Homelands and Diasporas: Perspectives on Jewish Culture in the Mediterranean and Beyond- Festschrift for Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 14-26.

Journal articles

Select journal articles:

• Weil, S. 2012 'The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context', Journal of Comparative Family Studies 43 (1): 71-80.
• Corradi, C., Marcuello-Servós, C, Boira, S. and Weil, S. 2016a ‘Theories of femicide and their significance for social research’, Current Sociology 64(7): 975-995. Special Issue edited by Marcuello-Servós, C, Corradi, C., Weil, S. and Boira, S. DOI:10.1177/0011392115622256. http://csi.sagepub.com/content/64/7/975.full.pdf?ijkey=HkNNPZN9pidarZR&keytype=finite.
• Weil, S. 2016b ‘Making Femicide Visible’, Current Sociology 64(7): 1124 –1137. Special Issue on Femicide.  In : Special Issue on Femicide edited by Marcuello-Servós, C, Corradi, C., Weil, S. and Boira, S.DOI:10.1177/0011392115623602. http://csi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/64/7/1124.pdf?ijkey=UTLvgBTPezFfS64&keytype=finite.
• Weil, S. 2016c ‘Failed Femicides among Migrant Survivors’, Qualitative Sociology Review12(4):6-21. http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/archive_eng.php.
• Weil, S. 2017. ‘The Advantages of Qualitative Research into Femicide’, Qualitative Sociology Review 13 (3): 118-125. In: Special Issue on Femicide, edited by Weil S. and Kouta, C. http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume42/QSR_13_3_Weil.pdf

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• 1996  De Roy Testamentary Foundation Medal of Excellence in Education - for initiating and directing the Ethiopian Teachers’ Training Program in Israel, Hebrew.
• 1992-2000 Founding Chair: Israel-India Friendship Association.
• 2005-2012 President, SOSTEJE (Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry).
• 1990-2017 Grants from Taube, Koret, HJH and other Foudations.
• 2007-2011 Editor, European Sociologist.
• 2013-2017 Chair: COST Action IS1206 “Femicide across Europe".
• 2017 GIAN Distinguished Professor, JNU, Delhi.

Projects

• Chair of 80 person committee from 30 countries till 2017: COST project on  “Femicide across Europe”.
• PNIMA-Project for Migrant Women and Children, Israel.
• Programme for Educational Leadership for Ethiopian Jews in Israel.

Other

Prof Shalva Weil is a senior researcher at Prof. Shalva Weil the Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem and a research fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies, UNISA.