Persian Jewry

Anti-Semitism 101.

Behnam Gholipour
June 7 2022 12:01AM

In a new book, Shahrzad Elghanayan strives to make sense of her grandfather’s decision not to flee.

Tara Bahrampour
April 14 2022 12:01AM

And the long history of a local tradition.

Hanan Greenwood
March 15 2022 12:01AM

Accompanied by a master player of the santur.

Ruben Malekan
Sept. 23 2020 12:01AM

Only about Jewish racial privilege.

Karmel Melamed
Sept. 21 2020 12:01AM

What might be the earliest extant document in modern Persian.

Ursula Sims-Williams
July 3 2020 12:01AM

Arson at the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.

Alireza Nader and Benjamin Weinthal
May 27 2020 12:01AM

A new book explores the Diaspora’s perennial question.

April 8 2020 12:01AM

Lishán Didán.

Jacqueline Taylor
May 10 2019 12:01AM

A Jewish community forced into hiding and occasionally paraded before credulous journalists.

Majid Rafizadeh
Jan. 22 2019 12:01AM

The Pittsburgh massacre shouldn’t be an opportunity for partisan finger-pointing.

Rabbi David Wolpe
Oct. 30 2018 12:01AM

Jews of the Silk Road.

Aram Yardumian
July 9 2018 12:01AM

Including a liturgy almost identical to that used today.

Yoel Finkleman and Ofir Haim
Oct. 19 2017 12:01AM