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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)

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This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention, with the primary aim of preventing British expansion from India into the region, to one of increasing intervention as trade and Russian settlement grew. It goes on to discuss the role of Bukhara and Khiva in the First World War and the Russian Revolution, and how the region was fundamentally cha

Bukhoro (Uzbekistan) --- Khiva (Uzbekistan) --- Russia --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Khiva (Uzbek S.S.R.) --- Khiva, Uzbek S.S.R. --- Bukhara (City) --- Bukhara (Uzbek S.S.R.) --- Bukhara (Uzbekistan) --- Bokhara (Uzbekistan) --- Boukhara (Uzbekistan) --- Bukharah (Uzbekistan) --- Politics and government. --- Territorial expansion. --- Bukhoro viloi︠a︡ti (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) --- Politics and government --- Territorial expansion --- Bukhoro (Uzbekistan) - Politics and government --- Khiva (Uzbekistan) - Politics and government --- Russia - Territorial expansion --- Buxoro (Uzbekistan) --- Alt-Buchara (Uzbekistan) --- Staraya Bukhara (Uzbekistan)