Bukharan Jews in the 20th century
Subtitle: history, experience and narration
By: ed. by Ingeborg Baldauf, Moshe Gammer and Thomas Loy
Series: Iran-Turan -- Bd. 9; Iran-Turan -- Bd. 9.
Publisher: Reichert
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783895006388
Subjects: Jews; Social conditions; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Declaration of rights of the native Jews" : the final legislative act induced by the "Bukharan Jewish question"  -- Yefim Yakubov; title: When it all began : Bukharan Jews and the Soviets in Central Asia, 1917-1932  -- Ze'ev Levin; title: The linguistic challenge : Bukharan Jews and Soviet language policy  -- Lutz Rzehak; title: The religious life of the Bukharan Jewish community in Soviet Central Asia after World War II  -- Yaacov Ro'i; title: The demographic profile of the Bukharan Jews in the late Soviet period  -- Mark Tolts; title: The experiences of Bukharan Jews outside the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s  -- Sara Koplik; title: The Bukharan Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the 21st century  -- Albert Kaganovitch; title: The Soviet Union remembered by an Uzbek writer  -- Ingeborg Baldauf; title: About a friend : reflections on the memoirs of Mordekhay Bachayev  -- Thomas Loy; title: Close relatives : the life history of Abrasha (Arkadi) Levayevich Il'yasov  -- Thomas Loy; title: Protecting the integrity of the community : interpreting Jewish life in pre-Soviet Central Asia : notes from Rabbanith Miriam's life history  -- Yochai Primak; title: Rituals in flux : courtship and marriage among Bukharan Jews -- Alanna E. Cooper.