Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Alanna E., 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
Series:Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.