Uzbek Jews

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Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand , photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorski between 1909 and 1915

Uzbek Jews ( Hebrew יהדות אוזבקיסטן) are divided into two different faiths: the traditional Bucharian Jewish community and the more progressive Ashkenazi community of European origin.

In 1989 there were 94,900 Jews in what was then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , of whom fewer than 5,000 resided in Uzbekistan in 2007 (most of them in Tashkent). There are only twelve synagogues left in Uzbekistan.

Mainly Jewish musicians cultivated the courtly art music style Shashmaqam in the Emirate of Bukhara . After emigrating from Bukhara to Israel and the United States, most of the Jews who remained in the country are now Ashkenazim.

Judaism in the Fergana Valley

Semyon Abdurachmanow is the head of the Fergana Jewish community. There are a total of six synagogues in the valley. There are several hundred Jews in Fergana , Namangan , Kokand - and around 800 in total in the region. Abdurachmanov said that the biggest problem for the Jewish community is, on the one hand, the poor state of the Uzbek economy and, on the other hand, the increasing anti-Semitism - especially due to the increasing radicalization of Muslims in the area.

During the Andizhan massacre in May 2005 , the Israeli embassy in Tashkent asked Abdurachmanov to draw up a list of Andizhan's Uzbek Jews - "in case there seems to be a need to airlift people to Israel."

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  1. ↑ World Jewish Population 2001 (PDF; 527 kB), American Jewish Yearbook , Vol. 101 (2001), Ed. 101 (2001), p. 561.
  2. ↑ World Jewish Population 2007 (PDF; 1.2 MB), American Jewish Yearbook , Ed. 107 (2007), p. 592.
  3. ↑ a b c Uzbek Jewish Worries , JTA
  4. ↑ Rift on root differences, Uzbekistan remains unmended for Jews ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jewish Telegraph Agency @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jta.org