The Role of Iranian Jews in Persian Music

The Role of Iranian Jews in Persian Music

Lecturer: Dr. Houman Sarshar

In the third event in celebration of the new KHRCA exhibition In the Land of the Shahs: Jewish Lives in Persia/Iran, join us as we welcome scholar of Iranian Jewry Dr. Houman Sarshar. Dr. Sarshar will discuss his research on the role of Iranian Jews in classical and popular Persian music.

Houman M. Sarshar is a consulting editor of Judeo-Persian studies and contributing author for the Encyclopedia Iranica, a member of the University Seminar Series at Columbia University, and Director of Publications at the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History. He is the co-editor of three volumes of The Contemporary History of Iranian Jews; and editor of Esther’s Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews, and Jewish Communities of Iran: Entries on Judeo-Persian Communities Published by the Encyclopedia Iranica. His most recent work is The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World. Sarshar holds a PhD in Comparative Literatures (19^th–early 20^th Century French, English and Persian poetry) from Columbia University.