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From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture
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Gold Medalist, Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion category
Saba Soomekh offers a fascinating portrait of three generations of women in an ethnically distinctive and little-known American Jewish community, Jews of Iranian origin living in Los Angeles. Most of Iran's Jewish community immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles in the wake of the Iranian Revolution and the government-sponsored discrimination that followed. Based on interviews with women raised during the constitutional monarchy of the earlier part of the twentieth century, those raised during the modernizing Pahlavi regime of mid-century, and those who have grown up in Los Angeles, the book presents an ethnographic portrait of what life was and is like for Iranian Jewish women. Featuring the voices of all generations, the book concentrates on religiosity an
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Women in the Middle East: Case Studies of Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel
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On November 25, , the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) and the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS) held the online Wednesday forum with the topic ‘Women in the Middle East: Case Studies of Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel’. The speaker was Saba Soomekh, a lecturer at The Academy for Jewish Religion-CA, where she teaches religious studies and Middle Eastern History courses in addition to serving as the Associate Director at AJC-LA. Dr. Soomekh is the editor of the book Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in amerika (Purdue University Press, ) and the author of the book From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture (SUNY Press, ). Her book was awarded the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Award in the tro category. Soomekh teaches a
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Saba Soomekh.From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. $ (cloth), ISBN ; $ (paper), ISBN
Reviewed by Erik Greenberg (Autry National Center)
Published on H-Judaic (May, )
Commissioned by Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion)
The Transnational Experiences of Persian Jewish Women
In her book, From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between tro and Culture, Saba Soomekh blends methodologies from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, and oral history, to articulate the collective experience of Iranian Jewish women over three generations. Her work attempts to describe the nature of ethnic and religious identity, as well as the social and cultural practices of the Iranian Jewish community in general, and women in particular, in three historically distinct eras and two par