Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism

Main Author: Cooper, Alanna E., 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10634611
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.