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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

Jews, Bukharan. --- Jews --- Bokharan Jews --- Bukharan Jews --- Jews, Bokharan --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Bukhoro viloi͡ati (Uzbekistan) --- Bukhoro wiloyati (Uzbekistan) --- Bukhara Province (Uzbekistan) --- Bukhoro Vilayet (Uzbekistan) --- Bukhara (Uzbekistan : Province) --- Bukhoro (Uzbekistan : Viloi︠a︡ti) --- Bukhoro (Uzbekistan : Wiloyati) --- Buxoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) --- Buxoro viloyati (Uzbekistan) --- Bukharskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Uzbekistan) --- Ethnic relations. --- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan)