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Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism / Alanna E. Cooper.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studiesPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (305 pages) : mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780253006554
  • 0253006554
  • 9780253006554
  • 1283869926
  • 9781283869928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.892/40587 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.U92
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
First encounter : Bukharan Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi school in New York -- Writing Bukharan Jewish history : memory, authority, and peoplehood -- An emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia -- Revisiting the story of the emissary from the Holy Land -- Russian colonialism and Central Asian Jewish routes -- A matter of meat : local and global religious leaders in conversation -- Building a neighborhood and constructing Bukharan Jewish identity -- Local Jewish forms -- International Jewish organizations encounter local Jewish community life -- Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness -- Negotiating authenticity and identity : Bukharan Jews encounter each other and the self -- Jewish history as a conversation.
Summary: 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, the author traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there, as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, the author tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)512517

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First encounter : Bukharan Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi school in New York -- Writing Bukharan Jewish history : memory, authority, and peoplehood -- An emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia -- Revisiting the story of the emissary from the Holy Land -- Russian colonialism and Central Asian Jewish routes -- A matter of meat : local and global religious leaders in conversation -- Building a neighborhood and constructing Bukharan Jewish identity -- Local Jewish forms -- International Jewish organizations encounter local Jewish community life -- Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness -- Negotiating authenticity and identity : Bukharan Jews encounter each other and the self -- Jewish history as a conversation.

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, the author traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there, as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, the author tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish.

English.