Abstract:This article offers a new account of a late imperial elite Jewish politics, examining the lives of Rachel Ezra (1877–1952) and David Ezra (1871–1947), a Baghdadi Jewish couple from British India, through the lens of two sites of political formation: first, a memorial campaign led by David Ezra to have his Baghdadi community classified as European in the Bengali electorate; and second, the quotidian practices and affective ties that shaped the Ezras' embeddedness in elite Indian and Jewish cultures. These two sites each generated distinctive political vocabularies, categories, and concerns. However, both were informed by a single political horizon: a growing uncertainty about Jewish futures in India amidst the rise of Indian nationalism and the changing terms of British rule. Examining Jewish politics in the British Empire sheds critical light on the history of Zionism, Jewish politics, and the Jewish experience at the crossroads of imperialism and nationalism.

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晚期帝国精英犹太人政治：英属印度的巴格达迪犹太人与帝国和国家的政治视野

摘要：本文提供了对晚期帝国精英犹太政治的新描述，通过两个地点的镜头考察了来自英属印度的巴格达犹太夫妇瑞秋·埃兹拉 (1877–1952) 和大卫·埃兹拉 (1871–1947) 的生平政治形成：首先，由大卫·埃兹拉 (David Ezra) 领导的纪念活动，将他的巴格达迪社区归类为孟加拉选区的欧洲人；其次，塑造了以斯拉人在印度和犹太精英文化中的根基的日常行为和情感纽带。这两个网站各自产生了独特的政治词汇、类别和关注点。然而，两者都受到单一政治视野的影响：在印度民族主义兴起和英国统治条款不断变化的情况下，印度犹太人未来的不确定性越来越大。