Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism /
[Book]
Alanna E. Cooper
xxiv, 305 pages :
illustrations, map ;
23 cm
Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-294) and index
1. Introduction -- First encounter: Bukharan Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi school in New York -- Writing Bukharan Jewish history: memory, authority, and peoplehood -- 2. Eighteenth-century conversations -- An emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia -- Revisiting the story of the emissary from the Holy Land -- 3. Nineteenth-century conversations -- Russian colonialism and Central Asian Jewish routes -- A matter of meat: local and global religious leaders in conversation -- Building a neighborhood and constructing Bukharan Jewish identity -- 4. Twentieth-century conversations -- Local Jewish forms -- International Jewish organizations encounter local Jewish community life -- Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness -- Negotiating authenticity and identity: Bukharan Jews encounter each other and the self -- Jewish history as a conversation
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Jews-- Uzbekistan-- Bukhoro viloi͡ati-- History
Jews-- Uzbekistan-- Bukhoro viloi͡ati-- Social conditions