Amnon Netzer
- BACHER, WILHELM
BACHER, WILHELM (Bīnyāmīn Ze’ev) 1850-1913), was born in Liptószentmiklós, Hungary (today in Czechoslovakia). His father, Simon, was a Hebrew poet…
- ARDAŠĪR-NAMA
ARDAŠĪR-NAMA, a matnawī of six thousand couplets in Persian by Šāhīn Šīrāzī, a Jewish Persian poet of the 8th/14th century…
- ANJOMAN-E KALĪMĪĀN
ANJOMAN-E KALĪMĪĀN (JEWISH ASSOCIATION), name given to the Jewish Association of Tehran in the 1930s, and to the Jewish Association…
- AMĪNĀ
AMĪNĀ, pen name (taḵalloṣ) of BENYĀMĪN B. MĪŠĀʾĪL KĀŠĀNĪ, an outstanding Jewish poet of Iran. According to one of his…
- ALLIANCE ISRAÉLITE UNIVERSELLE
ALLIANCE ISRAÉLITE UNIVERSELLE, the first worldwide Jewish organization, through which a number of Jewish schools were founded in Iran. Established…
- CONVERSION iv. Of Persian Jews to other religions
CONVERSION iv. Of Persian Jews to other religions In the Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian periods relations between the Jews and…
- FESTIVALS vi, vii, viii
vi. Bahai. vii. Jewish. viii. Armenian. vi. BAHAI The major Bahai festivals and holy days have been fixed by the…
- ʿEZRĀ-NĀMA
ʿEZRĀ-NĀMA, paraphrased versification of the Book of ʿEzrā (q.v.) containing midrashic and Iranian legends. It was composed by Šāhīn (q.v.),…
- ESTHER AND MORDECHAI
ESTHER AND MORDECHAI, a Jewish shrine in the city of Hamadān, where, according to Judeo-Persian tradition, Esther and Mordechai are…
- EBRĀHĪM
EBRĀHĪM (Abraham), the name of the first patriarch of the Hebrew people. In Judaism. In its original form, Abram, the…
- DĀNĪĀL-E NABĪ
DĀNĪĀL-E NABĪ, the Old Testament prophet Daniel, in the Persian tradition. i. In the biblical and popular traditions. ii. In…
- DĀNĪĀL B. MOŠEH QŪMESĪ
DĀNĪĀL B. MOŠEH QŪMESĪ, Persian Jewish scholar and exegete of the Karaite sect, the members of which rejected rabbinical writings…
- BĀBĀʾĪ BEN NŪRĪʾEL
BĀBĀʾĪ BEN NŪRĪʾEL, a rabbi (ḥāḵām) from Isfahan who, at the behest of Nāder Shah Afšār (r. 1148-60/1736-47), translated the…
- BĀBĀʾĪ BEN LOṬF
BĀBĀʾĪ BEN LOṬF, the Jewish poet and historian of Kāšān during the first half of the 11th/17th century (d. after…
- BĀBĀʾĪ BEN FARHĀD
BĀBĀʾĪ BEN FARHĀD, eighteenth-century author of a versified history of the Jews of Kāšān with brief references to the Jews…
- JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES ix. JUDEO-PERSIAN LITERATURE
JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES OF IRAN ix. Judeo-Persian Literature Introduction. Several hundred years before the emergence of a Persian Jewish literature, and…
- Isfahan xviii. JEWISH COMMUNITY
ISFAHAN xviii. JEWISH COMMUNITY The beginning of the Jewish settlement in Isfahan is mixed with legends, but there are fragmentary…
- ḤAIM, SOLAYMĀN
ḤAIM, SOLAYMĀN, outstanding twentieth-century lexicographer (b. Tehran, 1886; d. Tehran, 1970). His father, Ḥaim Esḥāq, was a quilt-maker by profession;…
- ḤAIM, MOREH ḤAḴĀM
ḤAIM, Moreh Ḥaḵām, eminent Jewish scholar (b. Tehran, 1872; d. Tehran, 1942). Moreh and his younger sister Mandana were the…
- ḤAIM, ŠEMUʾEL
ḤAIM, Šemuʾel, generally known as Monsieur Ḥaim or Mister Ḥaim, journalist and Majles deputy (b. Ker-mānšāh, 1891; executed Tehran, Dec….
- KALIMI
KALIMI, the word used to refer to the Jews of Iran in modern Persian usage. The word “kalimi” derives from…
- HA-GE’ULLAH
HA-GE’ULLAH, Judeo-Persian weekly newspaper published in Tehran between 1920 and 1923. Ha-Ge’ullah is a Hebrew term meaning redemption and deliverance,…