Sifra Lentin is an author and historian. She is a Fellow of Bombay History Studies at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, a foreign policy think tank based in Mumbai. She was a Visiting Fellow in 2018 at the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for a project on Karachi’s Jews, a community to which her mother belongs. This research will soon be appearing in an edited volume under the broad subject title of Jews and Muslims in South Asia. She has written four books; her latest, Mercantile Bombay, is on the economic history of Mumbai and details the business, social, and cultural contribution of trading communities, one of which is the Baghdadi Jews. Her research on India’s Jewish communities has appeared as chapters in edited volumes: “The Jewish Presence in Bombay” in India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art, & Life-Cycle (Marg Publication, 2002), “Shalom India,” published in One India One People’s book Know India Better (2006), and “The Jewish presence in Mumbai: their contribution to the city’s economic, social and cultural fabric”, in Mumbai – Socio-Cultural Perspectives: Contribution of Ethnic Groups & Communities (Primus Books, 2017).