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- Title
Twisted Trajectories and Jewish-Muslim Interfaces: Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna.
- Authors
SKVIRSKAJA, VERA
- Abstract
This article discusses migration of Bukharan Jews--an ethnic-religious minority in (post-)Soviet Central Asia--and the establishment of multiconfessional, multi-ethnic Central Asian diaspora in the city of Vienna, Austria. During the Cold War period, Vienna was transformed from being a major transit hub for Soviet Jews moving from the USSR to Israel, USA and other destinations to a site of the most numerous and prominent Bukharan Jewish diaspora in Europe. Using the concept of 'migration infrastructure', the article investigates the ways in which this transformation took place. Furthermore, it focuses on Jewish-Muslim interfaces, both in Soviet Uzbekistan and present-day diaspora, to document the ongoing, albeit changing, coexistence and collaboration across ethnic-religious boundaries that facilitate transnational migration. I argue that the Jewish infrastructure, which emerged in Vienna's historically Jewish district of Leopoldstadt in the last decades, has also become a migrant infrastructure for the post-Soviet Tadjik-speaking Muslim migrants from Central Asia.
- Subjects
VIENNA (Austria); CENTRAL Asia; UZBEKISTAN; DIASPORA; JEWISH diaspora; JEWS; JEWISH migrations; TRANSNATIONALISM; COLD War, 1945-1991
- Publication
Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2023, Vol 41, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
1395-4199
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22439/cjas.v41i2.7107