The Jews of Bukhara

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The following compiled bibliography consists of other publications in various languages. Not having personally examined these items, I offer no opinion as to their value; however, I anticipate that they will be of interest to my European readers. I apologize for the incompleteness of some entries but trust that these works can located using standard reference aids and catalogs.

I wish to thank Herr Lutz Rzehak, instructor in Iranian languages at the Berlin Humboldt-University in Germany; Vitali Zhumagaliev of the Jewish University in Moscow; and Jeffrey Mammon of the University of Alberta--Edmonton for their contributions.

Publications in English

BREGEL, YURI: Bibliography of Islamic Central Asia. Part I: History, Religion, Culture. Part II: Descriptions and Travel, Written Sources for Central Asian History, Ethnography, Folklore, Folk Entertainments, Physical Anthropology. Part III: Archeology, Numismatics, Architecture, Visual Arts, Auxillary, Historical Disciplines, Historical Geography, Historiography, Bibliography, Addenda, Indexes. - Bloomington: Indiana University 1995 2276 S. (= Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series; 160)

Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives --Bukhara--. Vitaly Naumkin, series editor, and Andrei G. Nedvetsky, compiler. n.d.

FISCHEL, W. [J.]: The Jews of Central Asia (Khorasan) in medieval Hebrew and Islamic literature. - In: Historica Judaica. - 7 (1945). - P. 29-50

FISCHEL, W. [J.]: The leaders of the Jews of Bokhara. - In: Jewish leaders, 1750-1940. - New York, 1953. - P. 535-547

FISCHEL, W. [J.]: The rediscovery of the medieval Jewish community of Firuzkuh in Central Afghanistan. - In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 85. - 1965. - P. 148-153

Jews Among Muslims: Communities in the Precolonial Middle East. 1996.

MORRISON, M. A.: A rabbi of Samarkand. - In: Independent. - Vol. 51. - New York (1899). - P. 2226-2228

POZAILOV, GUJORA.: From Bukhara to Jerusalem: the immigration and settlement of Bukharan Jews in Eretz Israel 1868-1948. Jerusalem? - 1993.

RABINOWITZ, L. I.: Notes on the Jews of Central Asia (Khorasan). - In: Historia Judaica. Vol. 8, 1946, P. 66

SCHUYLER, EUGENE. Turkistan, Notes of a Journey. Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd. 1966.

ZAND, M.: Conversion of Jews to Islam in Central Asia in 18-19 centuries and the formation of the Chala (Central Asian Cripto-Jews) group. - In: XIVth International Congress of the International Association of the History of Religions: Abstracts. - Winnipeg, 1980. - P. 94

Publications in Hebrew

BEN-YA'AQOV, A.: Yehudei Bukharah be-'einei Rav Rashi. - In: Pe'amim. Jerusalem 35 (1988). - P. 89-101. - 9 ill.

MALLAEV, ILYOS: Shiru shakar. Ash'orhoi muntakhab. - New York, 1994. - 199 P. (also titled: Tanlangan asarlar; Izbrannaya poeziya)

MOSHAVE, BARUKH. Customs and Folklore Among Nineteenth Century Bukharian Jews in Central Asia. Unpublished dissertation, 420 pages (text in Hebrew). New York: Yeshiva University. - 1974. Described in Dissertation Abstracts, V. 35 1974 175, p. 2146A. Order # 74-23,553.

POZYILUV, GIYORA.: Yahadut Bukharah: Gedoheha U-Minhageha. Jerusalem? - 1993.

YAROSHEVSKI, D. B.: 'Al -a'madam ha-mishpati shel yehudei Asiyah ha-tikhonah. - In: Pe'amim. - Jerusalem 35 (1988). - P. 84-97. - ill.

ZAND, M.: Hityashvut ha-yehudit be-Asiyah ha-tikhonah be-yemei qedem ve be-yemei ha-beynayim ha-muqdamim. - In: Pe'amim. - Jerusalem 35 (1988). - P. 4-23. - 2 ill., 1 map

ZAND, M.: Yahadut Bukharah va-kibush Asiyah ha-tikhonah be-yadei ha-rusim. - In: Pe'amim. - Jerusalem 35 (1988). - P. 46-83. - 11 ill., 2 maps

Publications in Russian

ALMEEV, R.: Legends of the Ancient Bukhara. About the Construction of the First Synagogue in Bukhara. (in Russian)

AMITIN-SHAPIRO, Z. L.: O narodnoy meditsine tuzemnykh ("bukharskikh") evreev Turkestana. - In: Byulleten' Sredneaziatskogo Gosudarstvennogo universiteta. - Tashkent 13 (1926) - P. 6-17

AMITIN-SHAPIRO, Z. L.: Ocherk pravovogo byta sredneaziatskikh evreev. - Tashkent; Samarkand: "Uzgosizdat", 1931. - 104 p, ill.

AMITIN-SHAPIRO, Z. L.: Verovaniya i obryady sredneaziatskikh evreev, svyazannye s materinstvom i rannim detstvom. - In: Sovetskaya etnografiya. - (1933) 3-4. - P. 135-166

AMITIN-SHAPIRO, E. L.: Sredneaziatskie evrei posle Velikoy Oktyabr'skoy sotsialisticheskoy revolyutsii. - In: Sovetskaya etnografiya. - Moskva/Leningrad (1938) 1. - P. 53-59

BABAKHANOV, I.M.: K voprosu o proiskhozhdenii gruppy evreev-musul'man v Bukhare. - In: Sovetskaya etnografiya. - (1951) 3. - P. 162-163

DAVYDOV, A. S.: Tsikl pominal'nykh obryadov u sredneaziatskikh evreev. - In: Vsesoyuznaya sessiya po itogam polevykh etnograficheskikh issledovanij 1980-1981 gg., posvyashchennaya 60-letiyu obrazovaniya SSSR. Tezisy dokladov. - Nal'chik, 1982. - P. 83-84

Evrei Sredney Azii: nastoyashchee i proshloye (Jews of Central Asia: the present and the past) - St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg Jewish University, 1995.

GARLITSKIJ, A.: Evrei v Bukhare. - In: Srednyaya Aziya. - Tashkent: (1910) 2. - P. 99-105.

GINTSBURG, I. I.: Kratkiy obzor evreyskogo fonda rukopisnogo otdela Instituta vostokovedeniya Akademii nauk SSSR. - In: Bibliografiya Vostoka. - Moskva; Leningrad: "Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR", 10 (1930). - P. 125-130

I-J: Pravda sredne-aziatskikh evreev. - In: Turkestanskie vedomosti. - (1914) 59

KANTOR, L. M.: Tuzemnye evrei v Uzbekistane. - Samarkand; Tashkent: "Uzbekgosizdat", 1929. - 44 P. - (Appendix: Grubyak, Ya. F.: Antisemitizm v Turkestane. 7 S.)

KIRSNER, A. [L.]: Bukharskie evrei. - In: Turkestanskij kur'er. - (1909) Nr. 25-28

Kustarnoe krashenie v sredneaziatskikh russkikh vladeniyakh. - In: Tekhnicheskij sbornik. - (1900) 1. - prilozhenie, P. 1-3

LEVINSKIJ, M.: K istorii evreev Sredney Azii. - In: Evreyskaya starina. - 12 (1928) - P. 315-340

LOZOVSKAYA, T. S.: Mat' i ditya u sredneaziatskikh evreev g. Samarkanda. - In: Sovetskaya arkheologiya. - (1930) 3-4. - P. 197-212

MAEV, N. A.: Ocherki Bukharskogo khanstva (Bukhara i Shakhrisabz). - Tashkent, 1875. - 82 P. - (Repr. of two artikels: "Dve nedeli v Shakhrisabze" from: Turkestanskie vedomosti. 1875, Nr. 1-3; "Ot Shakhrisabza do Bukhary" from: Turkestanskie vedomosti. 1975, Nr. 5-6; the same: Materialy dlya statistiki turkestanskogo kraya. pod red. N. A. Maeva. Vol. 5. St. Peterburg, 1879, P. 77-130)

N. V.: K voprosu o priznanii za evreyami prav tuzemtsev v turkestanskom krae. - In: Turkestanskij kur'er. Tashkent, 1915, Nr. 72

RADLOV, V. V. (HG.): Evrei v Samarkande (Iz otcheta Radlova o poezdke v Zeravshanskij kraj letom 1868 g.). - In: Izvestiya Imperatorskogo Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva. 5/6 (1869), chast' 2. - P. 253-255 - (extract from his: "Srednyaya Zerafshanskaya dolina")

RADLOV, V. V.: Srednyaya Zerafshanskaya dolina. - In: Zapiski Imperatorskogo Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva po otdeleniju etnografii. - 6 (1880), P. 1-92. - ((contains chapter X of his "Iz Sibirii")

RESHETOV, A. M.: Evrei-musul'mane v Srednej Azii. - In: Kratkoe soderzhanie dokladov sredneaziatsko-kavkazskikh chtenij 1985 g. - Leningrad, 1986. - P. 8-9

SUKHAREVA, O. A. Bukhara. XIX - nachalo XX v. (Bukhara. 19th and early 20th centuries) - Moscow, 1966.

VAJZENBERG, S.: Evrei v Turkestane (Otchet o letnej pozedke 1912 goda). - In: Evrejsyaka starina. - 5 (1912). - P. 390-405

VEJSENBERG, S.: Evrei v Turkestane. - In: Turkestanskij kur'er. - Tashkent (1913) 62-64. - (Vgl. auch Vejzenberg)

KH. R.: Sredneaziatskie evrei. - In: Turkestanskie vedomosti. - 1914, Nr. 94

ZARUBIN, I. I.: O yazyke geratskich jevreev. - In: Doklady Rossijskoy Akademii Nauk 1924. - P. 181-183

ZARUBIN, I. I.: Ocherk razgovornogo yazyka samarkandskich evreev. - In: Iran. - Leningrad, 1928. - Bd. 2. - P. 75-83

Publications in French

LOEWENTHAL, R.: Les juifs de Buchara. - In: Cahiers du monde russe et sovi0tique. - Paris 2 (1961), P. 106-108

LOEWENTHAL, R.: The Jews of Bukhara. - In: Revue des 0tudes juives. Ser. 3, Vol. 3 (120), 1961, P. 345-351

SLOUSCH, N.: Les Juifs a Boukhara. - In: Revue du monde musulman. - Paris 7 (1911). - P. 402-413

Publications in German

RADLOFF, [W.]: Das mittlere Serafschanthal. - In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fuer Erdkunde zu Berlin. 6 (1871), P. 401-439, 497-526. - (contains chapter X of his "Aus Sibirien")

ZALEMAN, K. G.: Judaeo-Persica nach St.-Petersburger Handschriften mitgeteilt von Carl Salemann. I. Chudaidat, ein Judisch-bucharisches Gedicht. - In: Zapiski Imperatorskoy Akademii nauk. VII-ya seriya. T. XIII. Nr. 14. - Sankt Peterburg: 1897.