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Queen Esther's Garden
This anthology brings to English-language readers the riches of the Judaeo-Persian literary tradition produced by the Jewish community of Iran between the eight and nineteenth centuries. Judaeo-Persian texts, written in classical Persian but using the Hebrew alphabet, reflect profound Muslim influences as well as the extent of original thought and expression among Jewish-Persian writers. The translations include fragments of early documents, verse renditions of biblical books, prayers, religious poetry, commentaries, and historical cronicles. Judaeo-Persian texts, written in classical Persian but using the Hebrew alphabet, reflect profound Muslim influences as well as the extent of original thought and expression among Jewish-Persian writers.
Catalog of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Winner of the 2015 Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries! The AJL Judaica Bibliography Award was established to encourage the publication of outstanding Judaica bibliographies. The intellectual legacy of the ancient community of Iranian Jews rests in several large but neglected Judeo-Persian manuscript collections. The largest in the West, and the third largest collection in the world (198 manuscripts), belongs to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Primarily a work of reference, this Catalog informs scholars in the fields of Judaica and Iranica about the range of subjects (history, poetry, medicine, philology, etc.) that engaged Iranian Jews between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. It reflects the intellectual parameters of Iranian Jewry by describing the extent to which they were acquainted with classical Jewish texts while they were deeply enmeshed in the literary and artistic sensibilities of their Iranian environment.
Iranian Jewry During the Afghan Invasion
An edition of the 18th-century Judeo-Persian chronicle "The Book of Events in Kashan Concerning the Jews, " giving the text in Judeo-Persian (Hebrew letters), Persian, and English translation. The book describes Jewish suffering in Iran, particularly in the town of Kashan, during the Afghan invasions (1722-30) and the circumstances leading to the conversion of the impoverished Jewish community of Kashan, for economic reasons (in the hope of a reprieve from taxation), to Shi'ite Islam in 1729-30. The community regained its religious freedom from the conquering Iranian ruler after a 7-month period of living as Crypto-Jews.
The Persecution of the Jews under Shah ‘Abbās II
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 1,3, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The primary source of interest when dealing with Iranian Jewry in Ṣafavid times is Bābāī ibn Luṭf’s chronicle Kitāb-i Anusī, the ‘The Book of a Forced Convert’ or ‘The Book of Forced Conversion’. Vera Basch Moreen has written an overview of this Judean-Persian account. The Kitāb-i Anusī (KA) was probably written sometime after 1661 since Bābāī ibn Luṭf draws on the Jews regaining their religious freedom which happened only after 1661. If the narrative had been composed later than 1665, one might expect to find allusions to the mystical Messiah Sabbatai Zvi and t...
Miniature Paintings in Judaeo-Persian Manuscripts
In addition to the color illustrations there is a microfiche showing 84 color manuscript pages inserted in the back.
