The Last Jews of Baghdad

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...

University of Baghdad

"Cabusnama" is an important book in the Persian literature. It was written by Prince AlZiari Onsur AlMaali Kikaoos Bin Iskander Bin Kaboos Bin Washmiger Bin Ziar in the fifth Hugri Century. The book contains a number of important pieces of economic, military, intellectual, ect. All these were written in forty four chapters. The book was presented to his son and successor Gilanshah to teach him ...

University of Baghdad

The Situation of the Jews of Kashan in the Period of Afshāriyyeh and Zandiyyeh

Kashan's Jewish history is an integral part of Kashan's history, and its accurate understanding can give a clear cultural and sociological picture of the region's history. Also, the Jewish history of Kashan is an important part of Iranian Jewish history, which has previously been scattered among the works of historians and travelers and in the minds of residents and passersby. This article cov...

Gidó Attila THE JEWS

Table of content: 1. The frames of the research 2. The historiography of the Romanian and Hungarian Jewish communities; the sources of the research 3. The Jews of Cluj till the WWI 4. The demographical structure and the topography of the Jewish population of Cluj 5. The Jews occupational structure and their role in the economy 6. Interdictions, Segregation and Anti-Semitism in Cluj 7. The Jewis...