Title: Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism /
Authors: Cooper, Alanna E., 1968-
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jews Uzbekistan Bukhoro viloi͡ati History.; Jews Uzbekistan Bukhoro viloi͡ati Social conditions.; Jews, Bukharan.; Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) Ethnic relations.
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.