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Bukhara Jews
- From: Ashkenazim <ashkenaz...>
- Subject: Bukhara Jews
- Date: Wed 27 Nov 2002 13.48 (GMT)
Hello,
is there somebody who can help me to find out who the Bukhara Jews are?
I've got a video from a dance group from Tashkent, Uzbekistan as an artistic
leader of the Competition of Jewish performers that we have every spring in
Kazan (Tatarstan, a part of Russia). Now I need to decide if we invite them for
the competition or not. The dances seem to be absolutely Uzbek, and the music
they use sounds not Jewish at all. They say, they're the Bukhara Jews with
their large cultural traditions.
Where can I find information about this part of Jewish culture?
Paulina Achkinazi