GENERAL JEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

PERSIAN [IRANIAN]  JEWS, JUDAISM AND JUDEO-IRANIAN STUDIES

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Esther's Children

Houman, Sarshar (Ed.) Esther's Children, A Portrait of Iranian Jews. Jewish Publication Society - JPS, 2002, xiv + 457 pages, with many illustrations, both b/w and color, Cloth, English. ISBN: 0827607512.  $110.00.

This is a superb feast of a book. Its illustrations are stunning and many of the 25 articles by experts in Judeo-Iranian studies groundbreaking (SL).

Moreen, Vera B.

`The Status of Religious Minorities in Safavid Iran between 1617 and 1661,' JNES 40 : 119-134, 1981

Iranian Jewrys Hour of Peril and Heroism, A Study of Bābāí ibn Luṭfs Chronicle (1617-1662). New York-Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research. 1987

 `A Shī`ī Jewish Debate (munāẓara) in the Eighteenth Century', JOAS 119 (1999), 570-589.

Patai, R.

 Jadīd al-Islām, The Jewish New Muslims of Meshed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1987


 Sources for the Study of the Bābī-Bahā'ī religions and Judaism

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Jews, Bābīs and Bahā'īs : Some Bibliographical and Historical Notes

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