Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

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Wedding Song BRANDEIS SERIES ON JEWISH WOMEN Shulamit Reinharz, General Editor Joyce Antler, Associate Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor The Brandeis Series on Jewish Women is an innovative book series created by The HadassahBrandeis Institute. BSJW publishes a wide range of books by and about Jewish women in diverse contexts and time periods, of interest to scholars, and for the educated public. The series fills a major gap in Jewish learning by focusing on the lives of Jewish women and Jewish gender studies. Marjorie Agosín, Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America,  Rahel R. Wasserfall, Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law,  Susan Starr Sered, What Makes Women Sick: Militarism, Maternity, and Modesty in Israeli Society,  Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna, editors, Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives,  Ludmila Shtern, Leaving Leningrad: The True Adventures of a Soviet Émigré,  Jael Silliman, Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope,  Judith R. Baskin, Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature,  ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia,  Mark A. Raider and Miriam B. RaiderRoth , The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine,  Elizabeth Wyner Mark, editor, The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite,  Kalpana Misra and Melanie S. Rich, Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives,  Farideh Goldin, Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman,  Rochelle L. Millen, Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice,  Sylvia Barack Fishman, Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage,  Iris Parush, Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society,  Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe,  Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, editors, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise,  Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism,  Margalit Shilo, Jewish Women in the Old Yishuv, ‒,  Wedding Song MEMOIRS OF AN IR ANIAN JEWISH WOMAN 8 Farideh Goldin Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London 8888888 8888888 88 88 Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH ©  by Farideh Dayanim Goldin www.upne.com Printed in the United States of America     All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors and publishers who would like to obtain permission for any of the material in the work, should contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH . Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goldin, Farideh, – Wedding song : memoirs of an Iranian Jewish woman / Farideh Goldin. p. cm. — (Brandeis series on Jewish women)  ‒‒‒ (cloth) . Goldin, Farideh, —Childhood and youth. . Jews—Iran—Shiraz—Biography. . Shiraz (Iran)—Biography. I. Title. II. Series. .  '.—dc  Cover photo © 2002 Steve McCurry, from Portraits. Used by permission of the photographer and Magnum Photos Inc. McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beruit, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. His focus is on the human consequences of war. McCurry’s work frequently appears in National Geographic Magazine with recent articles on Yemen and the temples of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. He writes, “Most of my images are grounded in people, and I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that I guess you’ll call the human condition .” A poster of Mr. McCurry’s now iconic “Afghan Girl” is available on his website: www.stevemccurry.com. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of that poster will go towards helping the children of Afganistan. ...