Monday, October 6, 2014

The Other Persian Jews

By Jenny Levison for Jewniverse

Bukharian JewsIf you’re not from the region and you’re not a Near East cultural scholar, chances are that when you think about Persian Jews, you either go all the way back to the Book of Esther, or you think about the Jews of Tehran and Isfahan. But there’s another vast community of Persian speaking Jews in Central Asia and beyond: Bukharan Jews.

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