Jews of the Silk Road.

Including a liturgy almost identical to that used today.

No paradise.

Including the oldest one extant.

Silk Road merchants’ correspondence.

Their old neighbors won’t even speak of them.

A historical perspective.

Some of the oldest examples were found in China.

The Forward‘s report from there is full of naïveté.

Javad Zarif boasts of tolerance. An Iranian Jew begs to differ.

Prior to the 1979 Iranian revolution, Persian Jews enjoyed tolerance and prosperity, as they did for much of ancient history. Yet the current regime’s hatred. . .