Re: Bukhara Jews

[Ashkenazim <ashkenaz...>]

:http://members.dancris.com/~byblos/bukhara.htm  is good,
that's what I was looking for,
thanks a lot to everybody!
Paulina Achkinazi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pete Rushefsky 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:39 PM
  Subject: Re: Bukhara Jews


  Am sure there are others on the list who are more expert on this subject, but 
would recommend looking for Theodore Levin's work-- there's the CD on 
Smithsonian Folkways by Shashmaqam which comes with a nice set of liner notes 
by Levin.  There's another CD of Bukharan Jewish music on Smithsonian-- I think 
Hatikvah Music carries it.  Also Levin wrote an excellent musical travelogue of 
Uzbekistan/Tadjikistan called The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical 
Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York.  

  Also here's a web site:http://members.dancris.com/~byblos/bukhara.htm 

  Jews were central to the music culture Central Asia-- I'm not sure to what 
degree Jews had a different repertoire (outside of liturgical settings) of 
music and dance from "mainstream" Uzbek/Tadjik music-- rather they were 
integral in the development and advancement of this "mainstream" music and 
dance.  

  Levin is at Dartmouth College.  You could also try reaching Zev Feldman.  
Think list member Carol Freeman has done quite a bit of work in the Queens 
Bukharan community as well. 

  Best of luck, Pete Rushefsky 

   Ashkenazim <ashkenaz (at) mi(dot)ru> wrote: 

    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




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