1st Edition
Shared Spaces Jews and Interethnic Encounters in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 19th–20th Centuries
Introduction: Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Zeev Levin
1. Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles
Zeev Levin and Viacheslav Konstantinov
2. Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–80
Stefan B. Kirmse
3. Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Ariane Sadjed
4. ‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature
Thomas Loy
5. ‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation
Leora Eisenberg
6. Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik
Mateusz Majman
7. Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era
Chen Bram
8. Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia
Yulia Oreshina
Biography
Zeev Levin is a Historian of Central Asia and the Caucasus, focusing on Jewish communities in the Soviet periphery. He directs a research center at the Ben-Zvi Institute and has authored and edited several works, including studies on Soviet-era Jews in Central Asia and wartime displacement across the USSR.
