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About the Author
Hilda Nissimi is lecturer of General History at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She has published Rebellion and Tradition in Palestine during the Mandate (Ramat-Gan, 1985). Her current interests include crypto-faith communities, especially the Mashhadi Jewish community.
Reviews
"Hilda Nissimi's book is a valuable and worthy contribution to what is gradually emerging as a new and much needed phase in Judeo-Persian studies brought about by a new generation of scholars who are expanding on the work of previous archeologists, historians, and anthropologists to shed light on previously overlooked nuances of what it meant, and indeed of what it means, to be an Iranian Jew." -From the Foreword by Houman Sarshar, editor of Esther's Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews
"In 1839, the Jews of Mashhad in Northern Iran were forcibly converted by their Muslim neighbors. Like the Marranos, they continued to observe Jewish practices in secret. Members of the community can now be found in Israel, the United States, England and elsewhere. Of special interest are the features of an underground community. There was much intermarriage within the community. Women played a very special role in the maintenance of tradition. When the Mashhadis left Iran and returned to the open practice of Judaism they tended to build their own synagogues, similar to the Landsmannschaft of the emigrants from East Europe. The importance of this book is that it treats a topic of which the average reader knows nothing." -AJL Newsletter
Book Information
ISBN 9781789761245
Author Hilda Nissimi
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Weight(grams) 362g