Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Each of the autobiographical narrations presented in this study on Bukharan Jews is unique. Seen collectively, they amount to a comprehensive survey of Bukharan Jewish experiences in the twentieth century, enabling the reader to gain deep insights into the varied lifeworlds and mobilty of this Jewish diaspora group in Soviet Central Asia and beyond. The case studies and narrations of Bukharan Jewish pasts will also serve as a corrective for interest-based identity constructions and attempts to oversimplify and unify ‘national’ histories.