Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism
By: Alanna E. Cooper
Series: Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780253006431; 9780253006509; 9780253006554
Subjects: Social conditions; Bukharan Jews; Jews; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: First encounter: Bukharan Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi school in New York; title: Writing Bukharan Jewish history: memory, authority, and peoplehood; title: An emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia; title: Revisiting the story of the emissary from the Holy Land; title: Russian colonialism and Central Asian Jewish routes; title: A matter of meat: local and global religious leaders in conversation; title: Building a neighborhood and constructing Bukharan Jewish identity; title: Local Jewish forms; title: International Jewish organizations encounter local Jewish community life; title: Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness; title: Negotiating authenticity and identity: Bukharan Jews encounter each other and the self; title: Jewish history as a conversation.