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Tallit Catalog |
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Rabbi
Yosef Maimon
In 1793, Rabbi Yosef Maimon,
a Sephardic Jew from Tetuan,
Morocco and prominent kabbalist
in Tzfat, traveled to Bukhara
and found the local Jews in
a very bad state. He decided
to settle there. Maimon was
disappointed to see so many
Jews lacking knowledge and
observance of their religious
customs and Jewish law. He
became a spiritual leader,
aiming to educate and revive
the Jewish community's observance
and faith in Judaism. He changed
their Persian religious tradition
to Sephardic Jewish tradition.
During this time, the Jews
of Bukhara were almost extinct,
and Middle Eastern Jews came
to Central Asia and joined
the Bukharan Jewish community.
Maimon's work and the Middle
Eastern Jewish move to Central
Asia helped revive the almost
extinct Bukharan Jewish community.
Maimon is an ancestor of Shlomo
Moussaieff, author Jeffrey
Moussaieff Masson, and the
First Lady of Iceland Dorrit
Moussaieff.
Twentieth
century
Prior to the
establishment of the state of
Israel, the Bukharan Jews were
one of the most isolated
Jewish communities in the
world.
With the
establishment of Soviet rule
over the territory in 1917,
Jewish life seriously
deteriorated. Throughout the
1920s and 1930s, thousands of
Jews, fleeing religious
oppression, confiscation of
property, arrests, and
repressions, fled to
Palestine. In Central Asia,
the community attempted to
preserve their traditions
while displaying loyalty to
the government. World War II
and the Holocaust brought a
lot of Ashkenazi Jewish
refugees from the European
regions of the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe through
Uzbekistan. Starting in 1972,
one of the largest Bukharan
Jewish emigrations in history
occurred as the Jews of
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
emigrated to Israel and the
United States, due to looser
restrictions on immigration.
In the late 1980s to the early
1990s, almost all of the
remaining Bukharan Jews left
Central Asia for the United
States, Israel, Europe, or
Australia in the last mass
emigration of Bukharan Jews
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