Creator Bio
Farideh Goldin
b. 1953
Farideh Goldin was born in Shiraz, Iran. While a university student, she moved to the United States in 1976, where she completed her studies at Old Dominion University in Virginia. Goldin later earned advance degrees in women’s studies and creative writing. She writes and lectures widely on the tensions in Jewish Iranian culture.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
If I had to pick one defining moment in my Iranian life, it would be 5:00 a.m. one Friday in the fall of 1968. I was fifteen. Normally I woke to the sounds of a peddler selling green almonds and fava…