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Jews Along The Silk Road

Sun Oct 10 14:00:00 CEST 2021 - Tue Oct 12 21:00:00 CEST 2021

Inter­national Conference on Migration Routes, Entangled Spaces, and In-between Positions

(On Site and Livestreamed)

How do Jews live between Baku and Berlin, between Tashkent and Tehran, Dushanbe and Tel Aviv? How did experiences of convival living with Muslim, Christian or secularized majority and minority populations shape Jewish biographies and identities? The majority of Jews living in Germany and Europe today come from areas of the former Soviet Union. Most migrated from European parts such as Belarus, Ukraine or Russia, but some arrived from the southern and eastern republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia – areas that lie on the routes of the historic and new Silk Road.

During the three-day international conference, the little-known stories of flight, deportation and migration between Europe and Asia, the experiences of neighbourhood and religious everyday practices of (post-)Soviet Jews from the Caucasus and Central Asia will be approched. The focus is on social and cultural entangled and liminal spaces, places of encounters and in-between positions of people living as minorities and migrants in multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies.

Thomas Loy (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Bukharan Jews in Europe: Lifeworld and Memory far from the Silk Roads  (Panel 1, Sunday, 12 October, 4 pm)

 Please find the complete program here

Jews Along the Silk Road | Jewish Museum Berlin (jmberlin.de)

 Organizers of the conference

  • Dr. Alina Gromova (Jewish Museum Berlin, www.jmberlin.de)
  • Dr. Darja Klingenberg (Europe-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), www.europa-uni.de)
  • Dr. Tsypylma Darieva (Center for East European and International Studies, ZOiS Berlin, www.zois-berlin.de)