ahmedabad art critic author and artist esther david recounted her journey and work in jewish literature while speaking about my novels finding a homeland on saturday the talk was organized by the faculty of design foundation year cept university as part of a lecture seriesesther referred to the festival of passover commemorating when the jewish patriarch moses led the jews to freedom from slavery in egypt and how the ten commandments were in search of their homeland and said the concept of the wandering jew is connected to jews and was like a thin streak within me it was a feeling i never understood for a long time till i was almost in my midforties and became conscious of my jewish traditionseventually as i studied art the conflict of being a jew in india and being torn between two ways of life made me seek answers the fact that there was hardly any literature written by indian jews about jews in india was one trigger said estheranother came when i was approached by publishers to write about five generations of jews in india and it is then that i actually took to researching and writing thats how my books the book of esther and the book of rachel came up it started with the conflict and now i find my homeland my solace in my books she added