RT Article
T1 Conceptualizing diaspora: tales of jewish travelers in search of the lost tribes
JF AJS review
VO 30
IS 1
SP 95
OP 117
A1 Cooper, Alanna E.
LA English
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2006
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1650551029
AB I met Simcha Jacobovici in 1998 while doing my dissertation research in Uzbekistan. Long-haired, fair-skinned, and dressed in American garb, he was clearly an outsider like myself, and we introduced ourselves. I told him I was a cultural anthropologist doing fieldwork among the Bukharan Jews. He told me that he was a filmmaker collecting footage for a documentary about the ten lost tribes. I had heard the theory that the Bukharan Jews were among the lost Israelite tribes, but I considered it far-fetched and had trouble taking Simcha's enthusiasm about the possibility seriously.
K1 Jewish Diaspora
K1 Jewish peoples
K1 Travelers
K1 Judaism
K1 Jewish Culture
K1 Travel
K1 Exile
K1 Religious places
K1 Travelogues
DO 10.1017/S0364009406000043