Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism /
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 be...
| Основен автор: | Cooper, Alanna E., 1968- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2012]
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| Серия: |
Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=512517 |
Съдържание:
- 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.