Lifting the veil on Jewish Life in Iran

Karmel Melamed - 9 June 2020 - tells the story of Iran's Jews from 585 BCE to the present day. (Apologies for the poor sound at 1:1 when Karmel was talking about the token Jewish MP in the Iranian Parliament being a puppet of the regime.)

Prominent Jews mentioned were:

Habib Elghanian, who built the Plasco building

Dr Mousa Beroukhim, professor of French literature

Soleiman Haiim, author of the English-Persian dictionary

Jews executed by the regime:

Mansour Ghedooshim, executed Sept 1981, Isfahan

[binyaminasher]

The reason why the Qajar dynasty in Iran did not allow Jews to have an independent school in Iran was not that they did not like Jews! It was because they did not know what a Jew was at all! What kind of people are they! When did they find out? It was at this time that the Jews of Mashhad wrote a letter to Moshe montefiore asking for help. Shah of Iran does not know what Judaism is and when they explain him what is a Jews and after that order to Jews of Mashhad to return to Judaism.
Lack of education was common among the Iranian people and even in the Shah's court.

[banzand]

PLEASE edit the video by trimming the first 2 plus minutes where nothing's going on!! It does not exactly make the viewer to want to sit through it!