Combating the Double Erasure
Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lior B Sternfeld (0000-0002-4363-5458, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 299-320 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743823000697 |
| OpenAlex | W4381730496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian Jews have faced two powerful and inherently contradictory calls to compromise their voice and identity. From one side, Israel has consistently held the opinion that as an at-risk community they should be evacuated and resettled. On the other, Iran's revolutionary regime has made “Islamic” a centerpiece of Iranian identity, placing Jewish identity directly at odds with what it means to be an Iranian. For decades, foreign opposition groups have spread baseless and unsubstantiated claims suggesting that Iranian Jews are to be placed in concentration camps or forced to wear yellow stars. At the same time, Iran's top politicians repeatedly peddle anti-Semitic innuendo and promote Holocaust denial conspiracies. Yet such narratives miss the central fact rarely acknowledged in Israel or Western academic and public spheres: Iranian Jews have continued to maintain ownership of their story and narrative as both Iranian and Jewish. This article seeks to analyze the navigation of Iranian Jews between their struggle as a religious minority in the Islamic Republic and maintenance of their autonomous voice as represented outside Iran
Aesthetics · Art · Compromise · Denial · Identity (music · Islam · Islamic republic · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology · Religious studies
Jews Northern and Southern
Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt
The Communist Movement in Iran
Across Legal Lines
Democracy in Iran
Iran Between Two Revolutions
A Social Revolution
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran
Becoming Ottomans
Ottoman Brothers
Jewish Morocco
Precarious Lives
The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry
Reform Cinema in Iran
Jewish Radicals of Morocco
Remembering the Other
Between Iran and Zion
Iran
The Islamic Regime in Iran and Its Attitude towards the Jews
The Revolution's Forgotten Sons and Daughters
The seventh million
Islamic Anti-Semitism” in Historical Discourse
The Middle Eastern Shift and Provincializing Zionism
Algerian Nationalism, Zionism, and French Laïcité
Iran's Policy towards Jewish Iranians and the State of Israel. Is the Present Iranian State Islamofascist
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |