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Item Details
Title:
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BUKHARAN JEWS AND THE DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL JUDAISM
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By: |
Alanna E. Cooper |
Format: |
Book |

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£23.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0253006503 |
ISBN 13: |
9780253006509 |
Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
25 November, 2012 |
Series: |
Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies |
Pages: |
336 |
Description: |
Tells an intimate and personal story of what it means to be Bukharan Jewish |
Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
Returns: |
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