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Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

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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 ethnographic research there as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish. Together ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253006509
SKU
V9780253006509
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About Alanna E. Cooper
Alanna E. Cooper is an anthropologist and cultural historian who has held research and teaching positions at Boston University, University of Massachusetts, University of Michigan, and Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. Her publications have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Review of Books, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Jewish Social Studies, and AJS Review.

Reviews for Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism
This study of the Jewish communities of Central Asia—primarily the cities of Tashkent, Bukhara, and Samarkand, and smaller surrounding settlements—is an impressive synthesis of ethnography and cultural history. It is the product of many years of patient interviews, participant observation, and archival research.
AJS Review
Much interest will be provoked by this book in the transformation of Bukharan ... Read more

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