Shared Spaces : Jews and Interethnic Encounters in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 19th–20th Centuries (Hardcover)

Introduction: Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?1. Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles?2. Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878?80?3. Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries?4. ‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature?5. ‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation?6. Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik?7. Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era?8. Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia