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Re Bukharan Jews the only Jews having ""Issachar"" as a surname. Lived in area ""thousands"" of years. Example of the naivete and narrow scholarship of the article. First, the Bukharan Jews were almost entirely bereft of Jewish knowledge and practice by the 19th century, when they were missionized and ""restored"" by foreign Jewish emissaries. They had virtually no traditions. No one assumes a high level of culture in this remote area ""thousands"" of years ago. East-West trade began well into the Common Era, and Persian Jews in the silk-route trade probably established a trading colony here, as they did in Sinkiang/Kansu and Kaifeng (which were also defunct or highly assimilated by the early 19C). Secondly: ""Issachar"" is a very common surname or surname root among other Jews. It is so common, that it is one of the very few tribal names that has a nickname, usually ""sheik"" or a cognate form: eg Sheikowitz, Sikorski, Shack, etc.. Furthermore, some of these families (including my paternal-paternal line) have old traditions of descent from Issachar. The author is highly confused by ""Lost Tribes"" myths and shallow, if exuberant, Israeli scholarship. Note his very narrow sources and references. There is far better published scholarship available. "