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The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis The Shaping of Religious And Communal Identity in Their Journey from Iran to New York Hardcover - 2007
by Hilda Nissimi
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- Title The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis The Shaping of Religious And Communal Identity in Their Journey from Iran to New York
- Author Hilda Nissimi
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 180
- Language ENG
- Publisher Sussex Academic Pr, Brighton
- Date February 2007
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781845191603
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- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 49
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Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book This book tells the little-known story of a fascinating crypto-Jewish community through two centuries and three continents. Beginning as a precarious settlement of a few families in mid-eighteenth-century Mashhad, an Islamic holy city in northern Iran, the community grew into a closely-knit group in response to their forced conversion to Islam in 1839. Muslim hostility and a culture of memory sustained by intra-communal marriages reinforced their separate religious identity, vesting it in strong family and communal loyalty. Mashhadi women became the main agents of the cultural transmission of communal identity and achieved social roles and high status uncharacteristic for contemporary Jewish and Muslim communities. The Mashhadis maintained a double identity - upholding Islam in public while tenaciously holding onto their Jewish identity in…
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