Collected here are reports, interviews, and images created by teams of UCLA students enrolled in “Iranian Jewish Life in Los Angeles: Past and Present,” a Sociology course taught by Dr. Saba Soomekh in the fall of 2013. As the students learned, the Iranian Jewish community represents an important chapter in recent Los Angeles history. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, tens of thousands of Persian Jews migrated from Iran, forming one of the wealthiest waves of immigrants to ever come to the United States. Through their course work, the students studied how immigration has affected different generations of Iranian Jews and documented the remarkable ways Iranian Jews have rebuilt their community and their own lives. Here they add the stories of Iranian Jews to the map of Jewish Los Angeles.

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