The Jewish triangle blog archive

Haim Abraham’s Afghan Passports Haim (Aghajan) Abraham was born in 1897 or 1898 in the city of Marv, located in the Transcaspian oblast of Russian Turkestan. ...

The chapter presented here briefly summarizes the events and experiences of the Bachaev family in the city of Kokand in 1918. Mordekhai was six years old at the time. ...

Mordekhay Bachaev: “In the Stone Sack” – A Literary Legacy Mordekhay Bachaev’s two-volume memoir “Dar juvoli Sangin” (In the Stone Sack) documents his life from 1918 to 1944. ...

As part of our field and archival research in New York in November 2024, we explored the religious and cultural institutions of the Bukharan Jewish community in the city. One important institution in this effort was the Bukharan Jewish Museum, located in Rego Park, Queens. Image 1. ...

Secondary literature on the Jewish community in Afghanistan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries repeatedly emphasizes that hardly any written testimony produced by the community itself has survived (or remains in use). ...