Cooper, Alanna E. 1968- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History inu 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (305 pages) : maps). 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. 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. Alanna E. Cooper. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-uz--- Jews Uzbekistan Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti History Jews Uzbekistan Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti Social conditions Jews, Bukharan Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) Ethnic relations SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE Ethnic Studies General SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies RELIGION Judaism History Ethnic relations Jews Jews, Bukharan Jews Social conditions Uzbekistan Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti DS135.U92 305.892/40587 (DLC) 2012024374 9780253006554 0253006554 9780253006554 4A03D6A8-1241-4446-820B-C9BA0715E058 OverDrive, Inc. 22573/ctt16gmn55 JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=512517 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=512517 AZK 160329 20200709055700.0 ocn961555192 eng