Encyclopedias and Wikipedia References
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel' (pp.109-110); 'Lost Tribes' (pp. 714-715), in Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.) Encyclopedia of Judaism, Jerusalem Publishing House, 1989
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel' (3(South Asia): 27-29); 'Cochin Jews' (3(South Asia): 71-73), in Paul Hockings (ed.) Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall & Co., 1992
Weil, Shalva, 'India, Zionism In'; 'Indian Jews in Israel', in Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, Associated University Presses, pp. 651-653., 1994
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel' (1: 350), in Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar and Richard W. Bulliet (eds) Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, New York: Macmillan., 1996
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel', in R.J. Zwi. Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (eds in chief) The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 113, 1997
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel'; 'Cochin Jews', Encyclopedia Judaica, Jerusalem, CD-Rom, 1999
Weil, Shalva, 'Cochin Jews', in Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Ian Skoggard (eds) Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 78-80, 2002
Weil, Shalva, 'Judaism-South Asia', in David Levinson and Karen Christensen (eds) Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 3: 284-286, 2004
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel' (3: 335-339); 'Cochin Jews', in Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds) Encyclopedia Judaica, 1st ed., Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, CD-Rom, 2007
Weil, Shalva, 'Jews in India', (3: 1204-1212); 'The Jews of Pakistan', (3: 1228-1230); 'The Pathans of Afghanistan' (3: 1230-1231), in M.Avrum Erlich (ed.) Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC CLIO, 2008
Weil, Shalva, 'Bombay'; 'Calcutta'; 'India'; 'Pakistan', in Norman A. Stillman (ed.) Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Leiden: Brill., 2010
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel', in Adele Berlin (ed. in chief), 2nd edn, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 (forthcoming)
Weil, Shalva, 'Bene Israel'; 'Cochin Jews'; 'India (Jews of)'; 'Ten Lost Tribes', in Judith Baskin (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011 (forthcoming)
Weil, Shalva, 'Jews of India', 'Ten Lost Tribes' in Raphael Patai (founding ed.) and Haya Bar Itzhak (ed.) Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore, M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2011 (forthcoming)
Weil, Shalva, "Hebrew in India", in Geoffrey Kahn (General ed.) Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Leiden:Brill., 2011 (accepted for publication)