page_title: Bukharan Jews in Israel
section_title: 1881–1947
hierarchical_section_title: Bukharan Jews in Israel / History / 1881–1947
caption_attribution_description: English: A GROUP OF IMMIGRANTS FROM BUCHARA IN THE IMMIGRANTS' CAMP AT ATLIT. עולים חדשים מבוכרה במחנה עולים בעתלית.
context_page_description: Bukharan Jews in Israel, also known as the Bukharim, refers to immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Bukharan Jewish communities, who now reside within the state of Israel.
context_section_description: In 1890, seven members of the Bukharan Jewish community formed the Hovevei Zion Association of the Jewish communities of Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent. By 1914, around 1,500 Bukharan Jews had immigrated, and 4,000 more arrived in the early 1930s. In 1940, publications in Bukhori were shut down by the Soviets along with most Bukharan schools.
caption: Jewish immigrants from Bukhara at Atlit
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