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Saba Soomekh - From the Shahs to Los Angeles, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

From the Shahs to Los Angeles

Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture

Av Saba Soomekh

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A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.Gold Medalist, 2013 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 1979 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 and ritual observance, the relationship between men and women, and women's self-concept as Iranian Jewish women. Mother-daughter relationships, double standards for sons and daughters, marriage customs, the appeal of American forms of Jewish practices, social customs and pressures, and the alternate attraction to and critique of materialism and attention to outward appearance are discussed by the author and through the voices of her informants.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-11-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 481 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 232
  • Förlag: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 9781438443836
  • Utmärkelser: Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Religion) 2013
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Saba Soomekh is Assistant Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

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"…an astute anthropological study." — Lilith"…Soomekh's study offers some valuable insight into the history, culture, and society of a sometimes insular and somewhat inscrutable segment of Los Angeles's contemporary Jewish community … a sound and accessible study." — H-Net Reviews (H-Judaic)"Soomekh traces the innovation and maintenance of being Jewish in From the Shahs to Los Angeles, providing a valuable contribution for study and a story on immigrant communities in the U.S. that's accessible to the reader outside the insular community of Iranian Jews in Los Angeles." — Portland Book Review"As many as 40,000 Iranian Jews live in the Los Angeles area … Saba Soomekh, an Iranian-born member of this community, has written an informative profile of the three generations of women in this community … As an insider, Soomekh has a unique perspective on these three generations on the basis of her own experience, her background research, and interviews with members of each generation." — Jewish Book Council"…Saba Soomekh draws a compelling ethnographic portrait of what life was and is for [Jews] in Iran and the United States." — Canadian Jewish News

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