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 Surnames of allegèdly Bukhar[i]an Jews 

Am I the only one who is mystified by the very Russian-sounding names of such supposèdly Bukharan Jews as Abramoff, Leviev, Moussaieff, Alazarov, etc?  Are these people actually Bukharans with Russified surnames?  Or are they actually Ashkenazim who happened to have ambled into Bukhara over the past century (as their surnames seem to indicate)?  Does anyone know?  talk "