Adjusting scales: Jewish trading networks in and beyond Afghanistan, 1950-present-day

Marsden, Magnus

doi:10.1080/02757206.2023.2288649

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“…Before that we did not pay much attention to who was who', explained a woman who was around twenty at the time of the war. A similar trigger for Jewish emigration was also recorded in other Asian regions; in Afghanistan, for instance, the war resulted in the growing hostility towards the Jews and, at one point, Afghani Jews had to seek refuge in the synagogue in Kabul to protect themselves from the mob (Marsden 2023).…”

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“…In contrast to the histories of mobility of other Asian Jews throughout the 20 th century (e.g., Afghan and Syrian Jews, see Anderson 2023, Marsden 2023 in this volume), Bukharan Jews' transnational mobility was punctured by the arrival of the Soviets. Prior to that, Bukharan merchants established commercial hubs and invested in commercial properties in Moscow and other big Russian cities as well as in London and Palestine (Levin 2015: 7-13;Kimyagarov & Fazylov 2020).…”

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Twisted Trajectories and Jewish-Muslim Interfaces: Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna

Skvirskaja

2024

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This article discusses migration of Bukharan Jews – an ethnic-religious minority in (post-)Soviet Central Asia – and the establishment of multi-confessional, 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.

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Twisted Trajectories and Jewish-Muslim Interfaces: Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna

Skvirskaja

2024

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Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Sadjed

2024

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The Legacies of Afghanistan’s Urban Cosmopolitanism: Sikhs, Muslims and Markets in London

Marsden

2024

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This article explores the lives and activities of Afghan Sikhs living in the United Kingdom. Rather than analysing Afghan Sikhs as a one-dimensional “community” defined in relationship to a singular “identity” based on a shared geographical origin in Afghanistan, the article emphasises the ways in which they have formed multiple and dynamic networks across shifting geographical and historical contexts. Ethnographically, it focuses on the importance of commercial spaces, practices, and relations to the formation of such networks and the modes of social life within which these are entwined. The article argues that particular forms of everyday cosmopolitanism arise in the context of participation in long-distance commerce. Cosmopolitan sensibilities coexist with distinctions based on caste, language, and regional background, and are consciously regarded by some of the traders as markers of skill and social accomplishment.

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Adjusting scales: Jewish trading networks in and beyond Afghanistan, 1950-present-day

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Twisted Trajectories and Jewish-Muslim Interfaces: Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna

Twisted Trajectories and Jewish-Muslim Interfaces: Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna

Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries

The Legacies of Afghanistan’s Urban Cosmopolitanism: Sikhs, Muslims and Markets in London

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