Jewish Kazakhstan

A cross-cutting collection about Jewish life in Kazakhstan.

Jews in Kazakhstan: community, censuses and exile Story · From Bukharan Jews and the Nikolayev soldiers to the censuses of the twentieth century, the war, exile and the Virgin L…
Bukharan Jews: the group, the language and the historical territories Story · Who Bukharan Jews are, why the name is a collective one, and why their spoken language is a dialect of Tajik rather tha…
Challah and baursak: two tables side by side, not one recipe Story · The Ashkenazi Sabbath bread and a Kazakh dough dish: what they share, and why this is not one food with two names.