Saba Soomekh, Ph.D., is a the­o­log­i­cal stud­ies pro­fes­sor at Loy­ola Mary­mount Uni­ver­si­ty in Los Ange­les, Calif. She also teach­es a course on Iran­ian Jew­ish his­to­ry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les. Her forth­com­ing book on three gen­er­a­tions of Iran­ian Jew­ish women will be pub­lished by SUNY Press.