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7 months ago (2025-10-13 06:54)

Back to Bukhara. How memory, tourism, and the diaspora sustain the last vestiges of Uzbekistan’s Jewish heritage

Best known as a stop on the Silk Road trade route, Uzbekistan’s ancient city of Bukhara was home to a thriving Jewish community for more than 2,000 years. But since the Soviet Union’s collapse in the ...