2025年2月19日 · Like the Anusim of Spain, it was the women of the community who became the primary guardians of Jewish life in Mashhad. Beneath their chador —the Muslim garment that covered their entire bodies and concealed their identities—they became the …

women's status in the larger society allowed Mashhadi women to push beyond longstanding constraints, such as the early age at which girls traditionally married (see Figure i).

2021年3月30日 · Yaakov Zar, who was one of the wealthiest Jews in Mashhad, paid for the couple to come from Russia to Mashhad by taxi. During their trip, which lasted several days, Benjamin revealed the big secret of the Mashhad Jewish community to Sarah. We now go back nearly 100 years in time. The place is Mashhad.

2022年3月31日 · Iranian authorities prevented dozens of Iranian women from entering Imam Reza football stadium in the city of Mashhad on March 29, 2022, possibly using excessive force.

2007年4月25日 · JEWISH WOMEN OF MASHHAD Hilda Nissimi The purpose of this paper is to chart the influence of communal heritage and social history on the absorption of the Mashhadi community in Israel during the 1950s, with a special focus on its women. The central argument is that the status of Mashhadi women continued to be shaped by their past

2025年2月25日 · That elderly woman, named Johar, was herself a Jewish woman who had converted to Islam. After her Muslim husband’s death, she returned to Judaism, immigrated to the Land of Israel, lived in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem, and was buried on …

2021年10月12日 · The Mashhadi Jewish community spread from its origins in Mashhad, Iran, to different countries in Europe, Israel and the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward. This paper discusses how the Mashhadi diaspora reframed their religious and ethnic identification in order to meet modern demands of exclusive belonging.

One of the main impacts of the increase in women’s pilgrimages is the presence of a higher proportion of women within the labour force of the shrine in Mashhad (Haram), and in the industries...

The Jews of Mashhad, Iran, converted to Shl'l Islam in the spring of 1839 as a result of an incident allegedly involving a Jewish woman seek ing treatment for a wound, on the advice of a Muslim physician, from the warm blood of a dog. This took place, apparently, either on the Shl'l festival of Ashura (10th of Muharram), the day commemorating ...

2021年12月15日 · The Marranos of Mashhad set up synagogues in private homes and mikvehs – ritual baths – in basements. Every member of the community was given two names, one Jewish and one Muslim. And when girls were born, their ears were pierced and they were betrothed to boys from the community at a young age.