The Jews of Iran

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Introduction. Houman M. Sarshar Chapter 1: New Vistas on the History of Iranian Jewry in Late Antiquity: Patterns of Jewish Settlement in Iran. Parvaneh Pourshariati Chapter 2: Loter?'i. Martin Schwartz Chapter 3: The Intellectual and Polemical Dimensions of Hovot Rafa'el by El'azar Hayim b. ha-Dayyan Eliahu. Vera B. Moreen and David Yeroushalmi Chapter 4: Two Wars, Two Cities, Two Religions: The Jews of Mashhad and the Herat Wars. Haideh Sahim Chapter 5: The Origins of the Decorated Ketubbah in Iran and Afghanistan. Shalom Sabar Chapter 6: The Material Culture and Ritual Objects of the Jews of Iran. Orit Carmeli Chapter 7: The Things They Left Behind. Judith L. Goldstein Chapter 8: Voices of Marginality: Diversity in Jewish Iranian Women's Memoirs and Beyond. Jaleh Pirnazar Chapter 9: Flights from History in Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer's Fiction. Nasrin Rahimieh Chapter 10: Fantasies of Flight and Inclusion: Gina Nahai's Reclaiming of Jewish Iranian Identity in the American Diaspora. Mojgan Behmand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.