Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global judaism

Cooper, Alanna E 1968-

Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global judaism - Bloomington Indiana University Press 2012 - xxix,305p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-924) and index.

First encounter: Bukharan Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi school in New York -- Writing Bukharan Jewish history: memory, authority, and peoplehood -- An emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia -- Revisiting the story of the emissary from the Holy Land -- 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 -- 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--History.--Uzbekistan--Bukhoro viloi͡a︡ti
Jews--Social conditions.--Uzbekistan--Bukhoro viloi͡a︡ti
Jews, Bukharan.


Bukhoro viloi͡a︡ti (Uzbekistan)--Ethnic relations.

DS135.U92 / C66 2012

305.89240587 / CO-B

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