TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: Reining in Diaspora’s Margins
Acknowledgments

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1. First Encounter: Bukharan Jewish Immigrants in an Ashkenazi School in New York 
2. Writing Bukharan Jewish History: Memory, Authority, and Peoplehood

PART 2: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CONVERSATIONS

3. An Emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia 
4. Revisiting the Story of the Emissary from the Holy Land

PART 3: NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONVERSATIONS

5. Russian Colonialism and Central Asian Jewish Routes
6. A Matter of Meat: Local and Global Religious Leaders in Conversation
7. Building a Neighborhood and Constructing Bukharan Jewish Identity 

PART 4: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONVERSATIONS

8. Local Jewish Forms
9. International Jewish Organizations Encounter Local Jewish Community Life
10. Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness
11. Negotiating Authenticity and Identity: Bukharan Jews Encounter Each Other and the Self
12. Jewish History as a Conversation