When a neighbourhood falls off the map
Jewish disappearance from Samarkand’s Post-Soviet landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12709693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alanna E Cooper (0009-0007-0676-1379, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-370 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5886 • E-ISSN: 1472-5894 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725886.2022.2090236 |
| OpenAlex | W4285028131 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Established in 1843, the Jewish residential quarter in Samarkand (located at the time in the Bukharan kingdom, and today in independent Uzbekistan) has been emptied of its Jewish residents in the wake of the Soviet Union’s demise. Since then, physical markers testifying to their history in the neighbourhood have also been eroding. This process has been organic, rather than a deliberate program of erasure. Still, these shifts in the built environment fit within Uzbekistan’s larger project of state-building, as Jewish homes and communal structures belie the Russian and Soviet colonial legacy, which has been spurned since independence. Drawing on recent and historical accounts, as well as my own observations in the 1990s and in 2013, this article documents the built environment in the very moment of transition, as physical structures transform and are separated from the history and memories that enlivened them. With this disappearance, a tourist opportunity for encountering global Jewish diversity is lost, and Uzbekistan’s project of nation-building – absent its historical minority populations – is further solidified
Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Demise · Economic history · Ethnology · Geography · Independence (probability theory · Judaism · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Toponymy · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Soviet and Russian History
Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910
Collectivization and Social Engineering
Reportage
The Residential Quarter in Bukhara before the Revolution (The Work of O. A. Sukhareva)
Ethnicity and the politics of heritage in Uzbekistan
Post-Soviet realities of society in Uzbekistan
Ideology in brick and tile
Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide
The Jewish Communities of Central Asia in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move»
Community Life, Memory and a Changing Nature of Mahalla Identity in Uzbekistan
The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism
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