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Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism
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- Creator
- Alanna E. Cooper
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780253006431, 0253006503, 0253006430, 9780253006509, 9780253006554, 0253006554, 9781283869928, 1283869926
- OCLC
- ocn822992156, ocn961555192, ocn777602256
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-294) 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