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Informationen zum Autor Alanna E. Cooper is an anthropologist and cultural historian who has held research and teaching positions at Boston University, University of Massachusetts, University of Michigan, and Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. Her publications have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Review of Books, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Jewish Social Studies, and AJS Review. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Tells an intimate and personal story of what it means to be Bukharan Jewish Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Reining in Diaspora's Margins Acknowledgments Part 1. Introduction 1. First Encounter: Bukharan Jewish Immigrants in an Ashkenazi School in New York 2. Writing Bukharan Jewish History: Memory, Authority, and Peoplehood Part 2. Eighteenth-Century Conversations 3. An Emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia 4. Revisiting the Story of the Emissary from the Holy Land Part 3. Nineteenth-Century Conversations 5. Russian Colonialism and Central Asian Jewish Routes 6. A Matter of Meat: Local and Global Religious Leaders in Conversation 7. Building a Neighborhood and Constructing Bukharan Jewish Identity Part 4. Twentieth-Century Conversations 8. Local Jewish Forms 9. International Jewish Organizations Encounter Local Jewish Community Life 10. Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness 11. Negotiating Authenticity and Identity: Bukharan Jews Encounter Each Other and the Self 12. Jewish History as a Conversation Notes Bibliography Index
