Hi David, I just finished reading *Concealed* for my Sisterhood Book Club and found it a great read on many levels. I learned about a community I barely knew about, a daughter of immigrants trying to cope with living in two worlds and gleaned interesting insights into mental illness which I hadn't thought about before.
Thank you for sharing this recommendation, Jackie On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:27 PM david.hirsch1 via Hasafran < [email protected]> wrote: > Our former colleague Nancy Pressman Levy of Princeton University asked me > to post this > > I hope it's not the wrong forum: > > > Dear All: > A former colleague of mine recently recommended a book that may be of > interest to libraries that collect in Jewish and Middle Eastern studies. I > am passing along this information in case this book fits in with your > collecting policy. > > Author: Esther Amini > Title: Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian daughter caught between the > chador and America > Publisher: Highpoint Press, 2020 (paperback available) > > From the publisher: The author “grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the > American born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In > Concealed, she tells the story of being caught between two worlds: the > dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more > self-determination than tradition allows.” > > All best > > David Hirsch > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!kru2XbR2Lx5DPjcV6V0yEX3jutEgC59s3DtgwUyvUA9q986JPCXcsawb6anuQYZQOA5U7ZklUIT-$ > > Earlier Listserver: > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!kru2XbR2Lx5DPjcV6V0yEX3jutEgC59s3DtgwUyvUA9q986JPCXcsawb6anuQYZQOA5U7QH1_Mtv$ > > AJL HomePage > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!kru2XbR2Lx5DPjcV6V0yEX3jutEgC59s3DtgwUyvUA9q986JPCXcsawb6anuQYZQOA5U7cuQkZIn$ > > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > -- Jackie Ben-Efraim *"Although the books had changed, I the reader had not." **Micha Yosef Berdichevsky 1865-1921* Special Collections Librarian Ostrow Library American Jewish University
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