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Wedding Song : Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman by Farideh Goldin (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBrandeis University Press

ISBN-101584653442

ISBN-139781584653448

eBay Product ID (ePID)2723319

Product Key Features

Book TitleWedding Song : Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

Number of Pages220 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicPersonal Memoirs, Jewish Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorFarideh Goldin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-008352

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal955/.72 B

SynopsisFarideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state--prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewish household and her emigration to the United States in 1975. As she recalls trips to the market and the mikvah, and as she evokes ritual celebrations like weddings, Goldin chronicles her childhood, her extended family, and the lives of the women in her community in Shiraz, a southern Iranian city. Her memoir details her parents' "courtship" (her father selected her mother from a group of adolescent girls), her mother's lonely life as a child-bride, and Goldin's childhood home which was presided over by her paternal grandmother. Goldin's memoir conveys not just the personal trauma of growing up in a family fraught with discord but also the tragic human costs of religious dogmatism. In Goldin's experience, Jewish fundamentalism was intensified by an Islamic context. Although the Muslims were antagonistic to Jews, their views on women's roles and their treatment of women influenced the attitude and practices of some Iranian Jews. In this brave and dispassionate portrayal of a little-known corner of Jewish life, Farideh Goldin confronts profound sadness yet captures the joys of a child's wonder as she savors the scenes and textures and scents of Jewish Iran. Readers share her youthful adventures and dangers, coming to understand how such experiences shape her choice.

LC Classification NumberDS135.I653G654 2003