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Informationen zum Autor Alanna E. Cooper 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. 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
