'Concealed' Iran’s hidden Jews - One daughter’s determination to discard her cultural
shackles |
Esther’s mother and father, Esther’s mother wearing a chador, passing for Muslim in Mashhad, Iran |
In Conversation Live in New York with |
The chair is Lynne Nathan
A retired Clinical Pharmacist and Medicines Adviser, enthusiastic amateur
thespian and a founder member of B’nai Brith Cheshire
Players. |
| 11.00am GMT
11.00am for 11.15am start
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A recording will be available on Friday shortly after the event finishes |
The speaker will cover the following points,
Then there
will be a Q&A session: |
Esther Amini - the daughter of Mashadi Jews of Iran, whose parents fled Iran to USA |
This extraordinary little known
Jewish community lived for centuries
in Mashad, home to the holiest
and most revered Muslim shrines in Iran |
The Mashadi Jews pretended outwardly to be Muslim whilst fervently practising in secret their Judaism and customs |
Esther describes her constant conflict
with the traditional
values of her parents |
Her mother was illiterate and gave birth at 14, her much older father passionately believed that women and books were a dangerous mix |
Her book,
Concealed, tells the story of being
torn between the two totally opposite worlds |
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