Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Iranian Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,2 (2010) 239-263
Keywords:
Muẓaffar al-Dīn Shāh,
;
Antisemitism History
;
Jews
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
;
Jews Persecutions
;
Pogroms
;
Shīrāz (Iran)
Abstract:
States that the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Constitutional years (1906-11) improved, to a limited extent, the legal status of the Jews in Iran. This was a reflection of changes in the public's attitude toward Jews in the days leading up to the Revolution. During the rule of Muzaffar al-Din Shah (1896-1906), as well as the last years of his father, Nasir al-Din Shah, there were discrimination and occasional riots against Jews in Kirmanshah, Tehran, Lar, and other places. The anti-Jewish violence was engendered by both religious and socioeconomic factors, and not only by religion as some scholars contend. In some cases, the attacks on Jews served as a tool of anti-regime protest or as a tool in the struggle for power, as, for example, in the Shiraz riots in June, July and November 1905. Jews were attacked and 12 were killed in the November riot. These incidents were halted with the intervention of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. The Revolution of 1906 did not bring about an emancipation of Iranian Jews.
Note:
Appeared also in "Iran, Israel, and the Jews" (2019) 336-366.
DOI:
10.1080/00210860903542168
URL:
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