Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cooper, Alanna E., 1968- author.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (305 pages) : maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
Subject:	Jews -- Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti -- History. Jews -- Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti -- Social conditions. Jews, Bukharan. Ethnic relations. Jews. Jews, Bukharan. Jews -- Social conditions. Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) -- Ethnic relations. Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11268402

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ISBN:	9780253006554 0253006554 9780253006554 9780253006431 9780253006509 0253006430 0253006503 1283869926 9781283869928
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
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, Alanna E. Cooper 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, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be.
Other form:	Print version: 9780253006431 0253006430

Table of 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.

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