| ID | 180028 |
| Title Proper | School is the link between the Jewish community and the surrounding milieu |
| Other Title Information | education and the Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | L. Farah, Daniella |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article offers a thematic examination of the significant role education played among the Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s. I focus on the work of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Franco-Jewish philanthropic organization which established its first school in Iran in 1898. The Alliance – which viewed Iranian Jews as backwards and degenerate – aimed to modernize them via Western education. In this article, I demonstrate that the Alliance’s work in Iran helped the Jews move up the socio-economic ladder and provided them with opportunities to integrate into the broader non-Jewish Iranian milieu. By exploring the disputes that arose between the Alliance and local Iranian Jews, I also show that Iran’s Jews did not always accept the Alliance’s paternalistic attitudes. To discuss the overall impact of education on Iranian Jews, I situate the history of Jewish education in Iran within the Pahlavi state’s nationalizing campaigns. |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 57, No.5; Sep 2021: p.793-809 |
| Journal Source | Middle Eastern Studies Vol: 57 No 5 |
| Key Words | Education ; Jewish Community ; Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s |