Bukharan Jews

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Bukharan Jews, also known as Bukharian Jews, are the Mizrahi Jewish sub-group of Central Asia that dwelt predominantly in what is today Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. The group's name is derived from the Emirate of Bukhara, a polity that once had a sizable Jewish population. Bukharan Jews are considered to be one of the oldest ethnoreligious groups in Central Asia, comprising a branch of Persian-speaking Jewry. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, most Bukharan Jews have emigrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, although small numbers remain in Tashkent, Bukhara and elsewhere across Central Asia.

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