Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Zahabiyan family

Zahabiyan family

Left to right: (standing) Ishaq, Ruh Allah Zahabiyan, ʻAziz Allah Zahabiyan, Khan Baba Zahabiyan, ʻAbd Allah Zahabiyan, Musa Zahabiyan, Yaʻqub Zahabiyan, Sinur Zahabiyan, Lutf Allah Liviyan [Levian]; (seated) Fatimah, Victoria Zahabiyan, Khanum Zahabiyan, Victoria (Muraduf) Zahabiyan, Dada Baygum Jan Zahabiyan Mishiyan [Meshian], Sara Rashti (Nanah Agha), Murdikhay [Mordekhai] Matahtiya Zahabiyan, Bibi Jan (Nihuray) Zahabiyan, Hishmat (Muraduf) Zahabiyan, Muhtaram (Iliyasiyan) Zahabiyan; (seated on ground) Yaʻqub Zahabiyan, ʻAzizah Zahabiyan, Hushang Zahabiyan, Jamilah (Zahabiyan) Chadurchi, Murad Zahabiyan, Manuchihr Zahabiyan, Pari (Zahabiyan) Ahubim, Ruza [Roza] (Zahabiyan) Hasid, Ishaq Davudzadah; (infants) Fakhri (Zahabiyan) Nurmand, Ashraf (Zahabiyan) Mika’il, Luʻiz (Zahabiyan) Kashani.

Item Details

  • Date 1935 (1314 SH)
  • Notes

    In 1935, Mirza Aqa Jan Zahabiyan, son of Murdikhay [Mordekhai] Matahtiya Zahabiyan, lived in Paris. In order to send him this photograph, the family was invited for lunch and a photographer hired to take the family portrait. Item information based on source data from CIJOH.

  • Collections Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History
  • Repository Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History (36-P-1996)
  • Restrictions Use of collection materials for publication purposes must cite the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History as the current repository.
  • Accessed 14 February 2012
  • Last Edited 12 August 2013
  • Record no. 1025A21
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