ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Persianate Jews: Mobility, Community, Memory
Who are Persian Jews and what can we learn from their history? Looking back on a history of almost 3000 years, the majority of Jews left the Persianate world from the mid-20th century onwards. As Jews who lived in Muslim cultures, their trajectories do not fit into mutually exclusive concepts of “Jews” and “Muslims”. However, we hardly know how interactions between Muslims and Jews worked on a daily basis because the contemporary narratives about Jewish-Muslim relations tend to be highly polarized, and access to sources in Persianate societies is hampered. Based on different forms of interconnectedness, this research provides the first comprehensive study about Persianate Jews from the 19th…
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