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In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee. They arrived in Israel as refugees. Farideh's father was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile. Leaving Iran knits together his story of dislocation and loss with Farideh's own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. [Amazon.com]
ISBN
9781771991377
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Athabasca University Press
City
Edmonton, Alberta
Keywords
Autobiography, Biography, Childhood, Family, Iranian American women, Iranians (United States), Jews (Iranian), Memoir, Refugees
Disciplines
Jewish Studies | Nonfiction
Recommended Citation
Goldin, Farideh, "Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile" (2015). English Faculty Bookshelf. 18.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_books/18
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