The Jewish triangle blog archive

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). ...