How Iran Kept Its Jews (Tablet)
Journalism · Tablet Magazine
How Iran Kept Its Jews
After the 1979 revolution and the execution of Jewish industrialist Habib Elghanian, two rabbis and four young Jewish intellectuals traveled to Qom to meet Ayatollah Khomeini. Writer Roya Hakakian tells the story of that meeting, which may have kept Iran's Jews physically safe, and of the second class status the community has lived with ever since.
By Roya Hakakian, Tablet Magazine, December 30, 2014. Opens in a new tab.
