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MediaDB / «Reluctant friends. Russia and Bukharian Jews, 1800–1917" Albert Kaganovich: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2016 / The study is devoted to various aspects of the history of Bukharian Jews in 1800–1917. Bukharan Jews who lived in Turkestan during its conquest by Russia (1860-1880s) received almost equal rights with the Muslims living there, occupying a uniquely preferential place in Russian legislation that discriminated against Jews. This situation was, on the one hand, the result of the liberalization of policy on the Jewish issue in the last decade of the reign of Alexander II, and on the other, recognition of the “usefulness” of Bukharian Jews in the recently conquered colony. In the last decades of the empire's existence, the status of Bukharian Jews was reflected in the struggle between the old imperial and new nationalist approaches to the Jewish question and Turkestan politics. This struggle showed that, despite the triumph of new ideological stereotypes in the views of the royal family, Russia at that time was not alien to some flexibility when it came to its economic development. A. Kaganovich – researcher at the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).