Uzbekistan’s Bukharan Jews are disappearing
Since the 1990s, thousands have left for Israel
Towards sunset on a recent Friday, prayer-chant echoed around the turquoise tiles of Bukhara, the ancient Uzbek city Muslims consider the holiest in Central Asia. Yet it came not from a mosque or madrassa, but from a synagogue.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The lost tribe of Central Asia”
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