Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

by Alanna E. Cooper, Jeff Bennett, Mario F. Triola, et al.

Book Overview

Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253006503
• ISBN13: 9780253006509
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher