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The Mashhadi Jewish community spread from its origins in Mashhad, Iran, to different countries in Europe, Israel and the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward. This paper discusses how the Mashhadi diaspora reframed their religious and ethnic identification in order to meet modern demands of exclusive belonging. Having lived as crypto-Jews in Iran roughly from the 1840s until the 1920s, the Mashhadi Jews have developed a distinct social identity with sharp communal boundaries, but also a narrative of the past that reframes ambiguities and their immersion in the Persianate context anew, after the Persianate societies in which their identities were integrated, dissolved into modern nation states. Departing from an exclusive focus on conversion, the paper traces the development of these narratives and new traditions as a way to establish a Jewish identity outside of Iran, rendering religiosity the main venue for performing authenticity and belonging.

Belonging from afar. Diasporic religiosity among the Jews of Mashhad