comment removed from article to this talk page 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 th 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 c 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