Hi David and Jackie, I, too, liked this book a lot-- and wrote a review about it for AJL Reviews.
Rachel ________________________________ From: Jacqueline Benefraim <[email protected]> Sent: 20 August 2021 06:27 To: david.hirsch1 <[email protected]> Cc: Hasafran <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Book recommendation 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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!jl7RwJTbfy2F6dPOYzTIyU-mM3wyQovCNrBoz7NwUnlCtwaN0zq0n_JvOkF3NftjPnehY6fm-AsU$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!kru2XbR2Lx5DPjcV6V0yEX3jutEgC59s3DtgwUyvUA9q986JPCXcsawb6anuQYZQOA5U7ZklUIT-$> Earlier Listserver: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!jl7RwJTbfy2F6dPOYzTIyU-mM3wyQovCNrBoz7NwUnlCtwaN0zq0n_JvOkF3NftjPnehY38By2WV$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!kru2XbR2Lx5DPjcV6V0yEX3jutEgC59s3DtgwUyvUA9q986JPCXcsawb6anuQYZQOA5U7QH1_Mtv$> AJL HomePage https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!jl7RwJTbfy2F6dPOYzTIyU-mM3wyQovCNrBoz7NwUnlCtwaN0zq0n_JvOkF3NftjPnehY85PjrUj$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!kru2XbR2Lx5DPjcV6V0yEX3jutEgC59s3DtgwUyvUA9q986JPCXcsawb6anuQYZQOA5U7cuQkZIn$> -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[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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