Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism
Author: Alanna E. Cooper
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253006554
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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 with her historical research about a series of dramatic encounters between Bukharan Jews and Jews in other parts of the world, this lively narrative illuminates the tensions inherent in maintaining Judaism as a single global religion over the course of its long and varied diaspora history.

Bukharan Jews

Bukharan Jews
Author: Ḣano Tolmas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2006
Genre: Bukhoro (Uzbekistan)
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Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century

Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century
Author: Ingeborg Baldauf
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:
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English description: Although the Jews of Central Asia have a long, eventful and fascinating history, the community of the Bukharan Jews attracted very little attention from researchers until recently. This new work encompasses twelve scholarly articles in English concerned with historical, linguistic and other aspects shaping the identity of this diaspora group in the 20th century. German description: Die Geschichte der Juden Zentralasiens ist lang, ereignisreich und faszinierend. Dennoch sind die so genannten Bucharischen Juden eine der am wenigsten erforschten judischen Gemeinden. Der vorliegende Sammelband vereint zwolf englischsprachige Beitrage die sich mit historischen, sprachlichen und anderen identitatsstiftenden Aspekten dieser Diaspora im 20. Jahrhundert befassen.

Bukharan Jews and Their Adaptation to the United States

Bukharan Jews and Their Adaptation to the United States
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
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Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, there has been a mass exodus of Bukharan Jews from the Central Asian republics. These emigres differ greatly from Russian Ashkenazic Jews in their Jewish identity, family structure and size, gender roles, child-rearing practices, expectations placed on their children, and attitudes toward mental health problems and their treatment. All of these differences need to be taken into account when working with this emigre population. In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.4, Summer 1996.

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union
Author: Thomas Loy
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan)
ISBN: 9783954901845
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"Each of the autobiographical narrations presented in this study on Bukharan Jews is unique. Seen collectively, they amount to a comprehensive survey of Bukharan Jewish experiences in the twentieth century, enabling the reader to gain deep insights into the varied lifeworlds and mobilty of this Jewish diaspora group in Soviet Central Asia and beyond. The case studies and narrations of Bukharan Jewish pasts will also serve as a corrective for interest-based identity constructions and attempts to oversimplify and unify 'national' histories"--

Greeted with Smiles

Greeted with Smiles
Author: Evan Rapport
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0190223138
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As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, settled into close-knit communities and existing as a quintessential American immigrant group. For Bukharian immigrants, music is an essential part of their communal self-definition, and musicians frequently act as cultural representatives for the group as a whole. Greeted with Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York explores the circumstances facing new American immigrants, using the music of the Bukharian Jews to gain entrance into their community and their culture. Author Evan Rapport investigates the transformation of Bukharian identity through an examination of corresponding changes in its music, focusing on three of these distinct but overlapping repertoires - maqom (classical or "heavy" music), Jewish religious music and popular party (or "light") music. Drawing upon interviews, participant observation and music lessons, Rapport interprets the personal perspectives of musicians who serve as community leaders and representatives. By adapting strategies acquired as an ethno-religious minority among Central Asian Muslim neighbors, Bukharian musicians have adjusted their musical repertoire in their new American home. The result is the creation of a distinct Bukharian Jewish American identity-their musical activities are changing the city's cultural landscape while at the same time providing for an understanding of the cultural implications of Bukharian diaspora. Greeted with Smiles is sure to be an essential text for ethnomusicologists and scholars of Jewish and Central Asian music and culture, Jewish-Muslim interaction and diasporic communities.

Bukharan Jews

Bukharan Jews
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230619828
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Bukhara, Forest Hills, Queens, Rego Park, Queens, Lev Leviev, Dushanbe Synagogue, Shoista Mullojonova, Dorrit Moussaieff, Lyab-i Hauz, Jacob Arabo, Simon Gaon, Meirkhaim Gavrielov, Malika Kalontarova, Jews in Kazakhstan, History of the Jews in Tajikistan, Yudik Mullodzhanov, Yisrael Aharoni, Yosef Maimon, Ilyas Malayev, Ari Babakhanov, Rena Galibova, Ohr Avner Foundation, Shlomo Moussaieff, Fatima Kuinova, Chala, Gavriel Mullokandov, Anthony Yadgaroff, Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, Shimon Hakham, Suleiman Yudakov, Uzbek Jews, Barno Itzhakova, Rosa Mullodzhanova, Robert Ilatov, Idan Yaniv, Jacques Abramoff, Itzhak Yehoshua, Jacob Nasirov, Boris Kandov, Ohr Avner Chabad Day School. Excerpt: Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. Austin Street, the main shopping area The southeastern portion of Austin Street has typical Queens six-story red brick apartment buildings on one side and residential homes on the other. The post office displays a sporting theme Queens Boulevard, looking eastwardThe neighborhood is home to upper-middle class residents, of whom the wealthier residents often live in the neighborhood's Forest Hills Gardens area. Historically, Forest Hills has been home to a large Jewish population, with more than ten thousand Jewish people located in the area. The community of Forest Hills was founded in 1906; before that, the area was known as Whitepot. In 1909, Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, who founded the Russell Sage Foundation, bought 142 acres (0.57 km) of land from the Cord Meyer Development Company. The original plan was to build good low-income housing and improve living conditions of the working poor. Grosvenor Atterbury, a renowned architect, was given the commission to design Forest Hills Gardens. The neighborhood was...