FROM THE PREFACE:

IN SPITE OF THEIR DEEP ROOTS, the ties that bound the Jews to Central Asia were not strong enough to withstand the changes that swept through the region at the end of the twentieth century. As soon as the USSR dissolved, these Jews began emigrating en masse.  I met many of them as new arrivals in an immigrant school in New York, where I taught in 1993. Curious to learn what it was like to be Jewish in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, I asked my students to tell me about the homes, schools, synagogues, and neighborhoods they had left behind..... 
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