TY - JOUR
T1 - The revolution's forgotten sons and daughters
T2 - The Jewish community in Tehran during the 1979 revolution
AU - Sternfeld, Lior
N1 - Funding Information:
Lior Sternfeld is a PhD Candidate, TA/AI, in the Department of History of the University of Texas at Austin. Lior Sternfeld would like to thank the Iran Heritage Foundation, Robert Abzug and the Schuster-man Center for Jewish Studies in the University of Texas at Austin for their generous support in this project, Houchang Chehabi, David Menashri, and Faryar Nikbakht for helping in the course of this research, and also Kamran Aghaie, Haggai Ram, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Cyrus Schayegh, Orit Bashkin, Laleh Khalili, Raha Rafii, Stephanye Hunter and Yoav Di-Capua for their comments on early drafts of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The International Society for Iranian Studies.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - The 1979 revolution in Iran was one of the most popular revolutions of the twentieth century. It was supported by all the classes of Iranian society, and crossed social strata, positions, and religious affiliations. A lot is known about the participation of different parts, such as students, urban professionals, religious leaders, bazaaris, and leftists, yet little is known about the participation of Jews in the revolutionary movements. This article sheds light on a little-known event in the life of the Jewish Iranian community and seeks to tell the story of different segments of the Jewish community during the tremulous years of the "Islamic Revolution." This article examines two main arenas in which the Jews facilitated the revolution-the Society of Jewish Iranian Intellectuals, and the Sapir Charity Hospital in Tehran-and seeks to draw attention to the minorities' contribution to the most important national revolution in Iran.
AB - The 1979 revolution in Iran was one of the most popular revolutions of the twentieth century. It was supported by all the classes of Iranian society, and crossed social strata, positions, and religious affiliations. A lot is known about the participation of different parts, such as students, urban professionals, religious leaders, bazaaris, and leftists, yet little is known about the participation of Jews in the revolutionary movements. This article sheds light on a little-known event in the life of the Jewish Iranian community and seeks to tell the story of different segments of the Jewish community during the tremulous years of the "Islamic Revolution." This article examines two main arenas in which the Jews facilitated the revolution-the Society of Jewish Iranian Intellectuals, and the Sapir Charity Hospital in Tehran-and seeks to draw attention to the minorities' contribution to the most important national revolution in Iran.
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U2 - 10.1080/00210862.2014.948744
DO - 10.1080/00210862.2014.948744
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84908575523
SN - 0021-0862
VL - 47
SP - 857
EP - 869
JO - Iranian Studies
JF - Iranian Studies
IS - 6
ER -