The Crypto–Jewish Mashhadis – The Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in…
The Crypto-Jewish MashhadisThe Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York\nAuthor(s): Hilda Nissimi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781789761245, 978-1789761245\nSynopsis\nThis 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-18th-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 an.
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