Project related Publications
A. Sadjed: Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries (Central Asian Survey 2024) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2024.2339389
Benzion Yehoshua and Ariane Sadjed: The use of Hebrew among the Jews of Afghanistan From the 19th to the mid- 20th centuries (currently under revision, for a preliminary version see here)
A. Sadjed: “Jewish identity formation after leaving Central Asia”. Special Issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 2024 (Vol. 15): Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizationsand Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Olga Breskaya and Siniša Zrinščak. Leiden:Brill.
A. Sadjed: “Connecting ‘Liminal’ Spaces: Jewish Trade Networks in 19th and early 20th century Khorasan”. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 33 (2023): New Vistas in the Study of Religious and Non-religious Belief, edited by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Ralph W. Hood Jr.
Leiden: Brill.
A. Sadjed: Conversion, Identity, and Memory in Iranian Historiography: The Jews of Mashhad (International Journal of Middle East Studies 2021)
A. Sadjed (ed.) Special Issue: Narratives of Being Jewish in the Persianate World (Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 2023)
A. Sadjed: Belonging from Afar. The Iranian Jewish Diaspora in Milan (Ethnic and Racial Studies 2021)
Iranian Jewish History (in English)
A. Amanat and Farzin Vejdani, eds. “Identity among the Jews of Iran” In Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective, 219–42. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
M. Amanat, Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha’i Faith. Library of Modern Religion 9. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
D. Amir, A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel. (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2023)
V. Basch-Moreen, The Status of Religious Minorities in Safavid Iran 1617-61. (Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1981).
A. Cecolin, Iranian Jews in Israel: Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015.
W. Fischel, “The Jews in Medieval Iran from the 16th to the 18th Centuries: Political, Economic, and Communal Aspects”. Irano-Judaica, edited by Shaked Shaked, 265–91. Jerusalem, 1982.
E. Kvindesland, Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914 (Past & Present, 2024).
H. Levy, Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran: The Outset of the Diaspora. Edited by Hooshang Ebrami. Translated by George W. Maschke. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999.
R. Patai, Jadid Al-Islam. The Jewish “New Muslims” of Meshhed. Wayne State University Press, 2014.
H. Sarshar, ed. Esther’s Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History; Jewish Publication Society, 2002.
L. Sternfeld, Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019.
D. Tsadik, Between Foreigners and Shi’is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
D. Tsadik, Judeo-Persian Communities. v. Qajar Period (1786-1925)’. In Encyclopædia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater, XV, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2009.
D. Yeroushalmi, The Jews of Iran: Chapters in Their History and Cultural Heritage. Bibliotheca Iranica : Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series 4. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2017.
D. Yeroushalmi and Kathleen Abraham, eds. Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews. Los Angeles; Tel Aviv: Fowler Museum at UCLA; Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, 2012.
Central Asian Jewish history
Z.L. Amitin-Shapiro, Ocherk pravovogo byta sredneaziatskikh evreev. Samarkand: Uzbekistan Government Press, 1931. (Russian)
M. Bachayev, B’tokh Sak ha’Even: Sefer Zikhronot. Jerusalem: Brit Yotzei Bukhara, 1990. (Hebrew)
A. Ben-Yaakov, The Jews of Bukhara as Seen by a Chief Rabbi. Pe’amim 35 (1988): 98–101. (Hebrew)
I. Ben-Zvi, “The Jews of Bukhara.” Exiled and Redeemed. Edited by Itzhak Ben-Zvi, 67–100. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957. (Hebrew)
B-D. Binyamin, “Natan Davidoff: Yazam Kakali mi-Turkestan ha-Rusit 1896–1923.” Pe’amim: Studies in the Cultural Heritage of Oriental Jewry 35 (1988): 102–120. (Hebrew)
A. Cooper, Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
A. Djumaev, Musical Traditions and Ceremonies of Bukhara. Anthropology of the Middle East 3.1 (2008): 52–66.
M. Fazilof and Chana Tomas, Legendy i Skazki Bukharskikh Yevreev. Israel: Bukharan Jewish Congress, 2015 (Russian)
G. Fuzailoff, On the Spiritual Condition of Jews of Bukhara on the Eve of the Arrival of Yossef Maman. AB”A: Ktav Et l’Heker v’limud Yehudei Iran, Bukhara, V’Afghanistan 1 (2007): 7–12. (Hebrew)
G. Fuzailoff, From Bukhara to Jerusalem: The Immigration and Settlement of Bukharan Jews in Eretz Israel (1868–1948). Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalaim, 1995.
B. Itzhak ed. Special Issue: Yehudei Bukhara. Pe’amim: Studies in the Cultural Heritage of Oriental Jewry 35 (1988). (Hebrew)
A. Kaganovich, The Mashhadi Jews (Djedids) in Central Asia (ANOR Central Asian Studies, 14), Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2008.
A. Kaganovich, The Jewish Communities of Central Asia in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, (Iranian Studies 2019).
Z. Levin, Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939. Brill, 2015.
T. Loy, Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union. Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change. Reichert, 2016.
R. Nektalov, Rafael. Gavriel Mullakandov. Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1993. (Russian)
C. Poujol, The Tajik Speaking Jewish Communities in Central Asia—Their Contemporary Situation. Pe’amim 35 (1988): 179–197. (Hebrew)
I. Rybakov, Easy Bukharian: Study Guide: Language of the Bukharian Jews. New York: Imanuel Rybakov, 2011.
V. Shukonov, The Jews of Bukhara and Their Role in Commercial Relations Between Russia and Kingdoms of Central Asia in the Second Half of the 18th and 19th Centuries. AB”A: Ktav Et l’Heker v’limud Yehudei Iran, Bukhara, V’Afghanistan 3 (2009): 5–11. (Hebrew)
N. Tagger, Toldot Yehudei Bukhara: be-Bukhara u-ve-Yisrael. Tel Aviv: Nissim Tagger, 1970. (Hebrew)
A. Ya’ari, Sifrei Yehudei Bukhara. Jerusalem: Kiryat Seer, 1942. (Hebrew)
Yeroushalmi, David. Threads of Silk: The Story of Bukharan Jewry. Tel Aviv: Beit Hatfutsot, 2013.
M. Zand, Michael. “Bukharan Jews” Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 4. Edited by Ehasan Yar-Shater, 530–545. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990.
Afghan Jewish History
S. Koplik. A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
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