Lipika

Pelham

Lipika Pelham is a historian specializing in early modern Sephardi Jewish revival in post-Reformation Amsterdam. She seeks out descendants of Iberian Jews in present-day Amsterdam as a modern reflection on the meaning of nationhood, identity, and what remains of the old “Jerusalem on the Amstel.” Pelham is currently a research fellow with the Volkswagen Momentum Fellowship Project, From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies, at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her current project examines the history of the settlement of Jews from Baghdad and wider Iraq in Indian cities from the 1790s until World War II, focusing on the Baghdadi satellite community’s quest for a Jewish-European-Indian identity during the colonial period. 

Pelham earned her Ph.D. from the University of Westminster, London