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

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
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Physical Description:305 p. :; map.
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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.