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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Subtitles:Main Articles
主要作者: Cooper, Alanna E. (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: University of Pennsylvania Press [2006]
In: AJS review
Year: 2006, 卷: 30, 發布: 1, Pages: 95-117
Further subjects:B 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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總結: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.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009406000043