Description
Book SynopsisThe history of Iranian Jews after the establishment of the Safavid State in Iran in 1501 C.E. has formed the subject of growing academic and broader interest over the last few decades. However, despite the significant increase in the quantity and quality of the publications in this area, some of the main aspects and periods in the history of Iranian Jews have received little or no systematic treatment. Dealing with some broad but closely related areas of history, community, society, and culture among the Jews of nineteenth-century Iran, the present book provides sources of information as well as discussions and explanations related to some of the main conditions and realities that shaped the lives of the Iranian Jews prior to their accelerated transformation in the course of the twentieth-century. Included among the eight sections and over forty annotated and analyzed sources in the book are those that shed light on some of the major areas of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Iran.
Table of ContentsSECTION I LEGAL POSITION AND GENERAL CONDITION SECTION II DEMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFUSION SECTION III ECONOMY AND MATERIAL EXISTENCE SECTION IV COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION AND INNER COMMUNAL RELATIONS SECTION V CULTURE AND EDUCATION SECTION VI RELIGION AND SPIRITUAL LIVES SECTION VII ASPECTS OF LIFE AND HISTORY IN THE LARGER COMMUNITIES SECTION VIII MAJOR EVENTS AND PROCESSES
