Conceptualizing diaspora: tales of jewish travelers in search of the lost tribes
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 tol...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2006]
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AJS review
Jahr: 2006, Band: 30, Heft: 1, Seiten: 95-117 |
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Jewish Culture
B Travel B Travelogues B Jewish peoples B Travelers B Judaism B Religious places B Exile B Jewish Diaspora |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009406000043 |