TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farideh Goldin
AB  - In 1975, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flights to Tel Aviv. They arrived in Israel as refugees, having left everything behind including the only home Farideh’s father had ever known. Baba, as Farideh called her 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: the confiscation of his passport while he attempted to return to Iran for his belongings, the resulting years of loneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return to his wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultry farm that had supported his family. Farideh translated her father’s memoir along with other documents she found in a briefcase after his death. Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. As an intimate portrait of displacement and the construction of identity, as a story of family loyalty and cultural memory, Leaving Iran is an important addition to a growing body of Iranian–American narratives.
DO  - 10.15215/aupress/9781771991377.01
ID  - OAPEN ID: 19417
KW  - 1979 Islamic revolution
KW  - dislocation
KW  - Shirazi Jews
KW  - immigration
KW  - diaspora
KW  - Iranian
KW  - Shah
KW  - Jewish
L1  - http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120252
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51492
PB  - Athabasca University Press
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781771991391
SN  - 9781771991407
SN  - 9781771991384
SN  - 9781771991377
TI  - Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exilenull
ER  - 
