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“Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors shared the same topography, climate, and rulers, but often Jewish geographic vision differed from that of the non-Jews.”
The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions, Steven Lowenstein

This map relies on Jewish conceptualizations of geography, unbound by modern conceptualizations of the nation-state or border. One example is the self-identification of Jews from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan as “Bukharian” as in, from the Khanate of Bukhara, which lasted about 200 years.

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