Title Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism / Alanna E. Cooper

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages) : maps Series Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies. Contents 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 Summary Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, the author traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there, as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, the author tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Jews -- Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti -- History Jews -- Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti -- Social conditions Jews, Bukharan. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. RELIGION -- Judaism -- History. Ethnic relations Jews Jews, Bukharan Jews -- Social conditions Juden Globalisierung SUBJECT Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) -- Ethnic relations Subject Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti Buchara Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780253006554 0253006554 9780253006554 1283869926 9781283869928

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