From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture

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INDEX 219 abe, 36 Abji Golbahar, 79 Aid-e-Nissan, 25 aliya, 7, 31 Alliance Israélite Universelle, 14, 18, 44–45, 72 appearance, 75–77, 138–142 Anglicized features, 140–141 designer clothes and accessories, 139–140 rhinoplasty, 75–76 significance of beauty, 140–142 zagh o boor, 140 Armenians, 2 Armenoid nose, 76 Ashkenazi community, 7, 97, 105, 108, 110–111 Assembly, 6 assimilation, 55–56 Aviad, Janet, 151–152 ba’alat teshuvah (pl. ba’a lot teshuvah), 151–152 Babylonian captivity, 3 Baer, Leah R., 34, 53, 108 Baha’i, 2, 6 Bahremand-Foruzanfar, Tannoz, 143 bar/bat mitzvah, 7, 46–49, 91, 97–99, 102, 104 bazi/baziha, 78–79 Beit Knesset, 28 Bell, Catherine (Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice), 9 Bengston, Vern L., 155–156 Betteridge, Anne H., 93 Beverly Hills, 2 Biale, Rachel (Women and Jewish Law), 19 bimah, 144 bnei mitzvoth, 7 Book of Esther, The, fn47 Bozorgmehr, Mehdi, 2 canary diamonds, 49 careers, 74–75 Chabad synagogue, 105 chador, 39 charoset, 26 chastegaree, 30 chastergars, 30, 74 cheshm ham cheshmi, 146 Chosen Mishpat, 205 competitiveness, 145–148, 187–188 Conservative synagogue, 7, 87, 100, 108 Constitutionalist Revolution (1906), 4, 6 Cyrus the Great, 3 Dallafar, Arlene, 30, 36 Darius I, 3 Davidman, Lynn, 107 domestication of religion, 14, 19 dorehs, 47–48, 87, 91, 93–97 food, 94–95 social hierarchy, 95–96 double lives, 127–129 Douglas, Mary, 23 pre-coded messages in food and meals, 23 Durkheim, Emile (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life), 9 education, 71–74 and employment, 169–171 Eicher, Joanne, 129–130 220 INDEX El-Al, 67 Eliade, Mircea (Cosmos and History), 24 Ellen Umansky, 54 Entwistle, Joanne, 129 esphan (wild rue), 20, 40–41 Esther/Mordecai story, 3, 14, 17, 38 ethnic incorporation, 114–115 hybridization, 115, 173–177 Ettefaqh school, 71–72 Even Ha-Ezer, 205 Ezra, 3 Fairfax, 2 family, 52–53 Family Protection Law, 52–53 Feixa, Carles, 115 Fischer, Lucy, 156 fitna, 59 gender and religion, 167–169 gender roles, 77–79, 89–90, 120–122 double standards, 122 mother’s role, 184–187 generational conflicts, 123–127, 178–183 influence of parents, 123 mother-daughter relationships, 152–163 overinvolved mothers, 124–127 get, 102 ghetto. See mahaleh ghondi, 23 Glatt kosher food, 104 Glendale, 2 “God willing, you will be a bride,” 144 Golden, Farideh (Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman), 30 gossip, 146–147 Great Civilization, 59–60 Habakkuk, 38 Hadassah, 47 Hafez, 40 haftorah, 102 haftsin, 40 Hakimi, Morgan, 101 halakhah (pl. halakhot), 4–5, 21, 25, 29, 32, 72, 105, 110, 151 halakhic literature, 21 Hamadan, Iran, 14, 17 Hamadian Jews, 14, 39 hames, 25, 68 hammam, 29 Hanassab, Shideh, 180 Harris, Anita, 139–140 “Girl Power” market, 140 Hebrew Union College, 72 Heilman, Samuel C., 146–147 hennah-bandan, 104 Holiday of Nissan, 25 hozrei bi’tshuvah, 4 Hubert, Henri, 9 husbands and wives, 30–37. See also marriage arranged marriages, 31 conflict with careers, 89–90 divorce, 34–35 gender roles, 77–79 influence of the matriarchs, 32 in-laws, 79 male–female inequality, 53 marriage, 70 pressured into marrying, 135–136 qualities of a Jewish wive, 70–71 virginity, 33–34, 69 hybridity, 8, 115 identity, 8 independence for women, 148–151 influence of non-Jewish culture, 79–80 International Islamic Unity conference, 119 Iran (Land of the Aryans), fn14 Iranian Jewish Schools, 44–45 Iranian Jews migration to America, 1, 7 most well-established immigrant community, 3 Iranian Rabbinical Council, 102 ishalah aroos beshi, 144 221 INDEX Islamic Republic of Iran, 1 Islamic Revolution of 1979, 1, 4 Israeli independence, 6 Jervis, Lisa, 141 Jewish and Persian, 113–165 Jewish congregations in Los Angeles, 2 Jewish education, 7 day schools, 7, 71 Jewish Emancipation, 6 Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, 135 Jewish Federation, 3 Jewish law. See also halakhah “Jewish nose,” 76, 141 Jewish Persian Cuisine, 23 Juhud, 42 kadosh, 107 Karakayali, Nedim, 128 kashrut, 24, 57 Kasravi, Ahmad, 61 Katz, Jacob (The “Shabbes Goy”), 21, 55 ketubahs, 15 khanevadeh, 36 Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi, 1, 7 Khomeini revolution, 53 knisa, 54 kosher, 24–25, 99 Kurosh Elementary School and High School, 6, 71–72 lashon ha-ra, 107 Leonard, Karen Isaken, 119 Levi, Habib, 7 Los Angeles, 87–112 highest concentration of Iranians, 2 Iranian center, 2 social expectations of women, 91–99 Macgregor, Frances, 76 Magbeet, 47...