ORIGINAL TITLE: ספר המלים
PRONUNCIATION: The Book of Words
TYPE: Book
CONDITION: VG condition, cloth covers, two last pages heavily worn.
NOTES: Bukharian Jews (also Bukharan Jews or Bukari Jews) are Jews from Central Asia who historically spoke Bukhori, a dialect of the Tajik-Persian language. Their name comes from the former Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara, which once had a sizable Jewish community. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the great majority have immigrated to Israel or to the United States (especially Forest Hills, New York), while others have immigrated to Europe or Australia.
Currently, 60,000 Bukharan Jews are mostly concentrated in the U.S. in New York, Arizona, Atlanta, Denver, South Florida, Los Angeles, San Diego. New York City's 108th Street in the borough of Queens, is often referred to as "Bukharan Broadway" or "Bukharian Broadway" in Forest Hills, Queens, is filled with Bukharan restaurants and gift shops. Furthermore, Forest Hills is nicknamed "Bukharlem" due to the majority of the population being Bukharian. They have formed a tight-knit enclave in this area that was once primarily inhabited by Ashkenazi Jews (many of the Ashkenazi Jews have assimilated to wider American and American Jewish culture with each successive generation).
Congregation Tifereth Israel in Corona, Queens, a synagogue founded in the early 1900s by Ashkenazi Jews, became Bukharan in the 1990s.
Kew Gardens, Queens, also has a very large population of Bukharan Jews. Author Janet Malcolmhas taken an interest in Bukharan Jews in the U.S., writing at length about Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and, in Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, about the 2007 contract murder of Daniel Malakov organized by his ex-wife Mazoltuv Borukhova.
There are now about 150,000 Bukharan Jews in Israel.
Currently, 60,000 Bukharan Jews are mostly concentrated in the U.S. in New York, Arizona, Atlanta, Denver, South Florida, Los Angeles, San Diego. New York City's 108th Street in the borough of Queens, is often referred to as "Bukharan Broadway" or "Bukharian Broadway" in Forest Hills, Queens, is filled with Bukharan restaurants and gift shops. Furthermore, Forest Hills is nicknamed "Bukharlem" due to the majority of the population being Bukharian. They have formed a tight-knit enclave in this area that was once primarily inhabited by Ashkenazi Jews (many of the Ashkenazi Jews have assimilated to wider American and American Jewish culture with each successive generation).
Congregation Tifereth Israel in Corona, Queens, a synagogue founded in the early 1900s by Ashkenazi Jews, became Bukharan in the 1990s.
Kew Gardens, Queens, also has a very large population of Bukharan Jews. Author Janet Malcolmhas taken an interest in Bukharan Jews in the U.S., writing at length about Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and, in Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, about the 2007 contract murder of Daniel Malakov organized by his ex-wife Mazoltuv Borukhova.
There are now about 150,000 Bukharan Jews in Israel.
LANGUAGE
Hebrew
Russian
Judeo-Persian
Foreign Language Inscription: קיצור ספר המלים : והוא מערכי מלים בשפת פארסית : יכיל בקרבו בערך "חמשה אלפים" מלים, כפי ניב המוניי אשר היה לחק עולם בין בל-אזרחי בוכארא ובנתיה : מסודר ... על פי א"ב ... מתרגמת כל מלה, בעברית ורוסית והתחלנו בראשו, סדר הלמוד, לחנך הנערים בקריאת האותיות והמלות / מאת דוד ב"ר יעקב ב"ר יצחק כויילך ...
כוילכוף, דוד בן יעקב;תרס"ז
Inscription Translation: Google Translation:
The abbreviation of the book of words: It is a set of words in Parsi language: It contains within it about five thousand words, as is the dialect of the masses, which was to be a world between the non-citizens of Bukhara and its structures: orderly ... according to AB ... And Russian, and we began with his head, the order of the study, to educate the boys by reading the letters and words / by David son of Rabbi Ya'akov son of Rabbi Yitzchak Koilech ...
David, son of Jacob;
ITEM ID: 4171
