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Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
Author: Farideh Goldin
Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state -- prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewish household and her emigration to the United States in 1975. As she recalls trips to the market...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781584654445
ISBN-10: 1584654449
Publication Date: 9/21/2004
Pages: 220
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Publisher: University Press of New England
Book Type: Paperback
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This book gave me a glimpse into a world that I didn't know existed. In this memoir, the author allows the reader to feel what it is like to live as a woman and a Jew in Iran during the time of her childhood. Women were married very young, not allowed to make their own decisons and lived in the same house with their extended families.

The family relationships were also very interesting, both between the men and women and the women themselves. The author loves her family very much but is also trying to be her own person and live the life she wants. This causes a lot of conflict, both internally for her and in the relationships with her family.
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