Tashkent

Soviet-era refuge capital - tens of thousands of Ashkenazi evacuees joined the Bukharan community 1941-45; today Central Asia's largest remaining community.

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Tashkent

Uzbekistan · City · 41.3°N 69.2°E

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Where is Tashkent?

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THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Tashkent?

1800–1941

Bukharan settlement

This section addresses destruction and loss. It is one chapter, not the whole story — continue to what survives and what was created after

1941–1945

WWII evacuation haven (documented)

1991–present

Post-1991 emigration; small community

Today

Small organized community.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Tashkent sound like?

Judeo-PersianHebrew (עברית, Ivrit)Yiddish (ייִדיש)

Judeo-Persian is a language with its own grammar, literature, and history — not “broken” anything, and not a dialect of Hebrew.

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Tashkent

Small organized community.

Tashkent synagogue
synagogue · public landmark

In Israel & the diaspora

The community's story continued elsewhere — these places carry it now.

Moscow Saint Petersburg Kyiv Minsk Odessa Tel Aviv Haifa Jerusalem Beersheba New York City Berlin

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Related places & stories

Moscow

Russia

Outside the Pale until 1917, then the Soviet Jewish capital - GOSET Yiddish theater, the Choral Synagogue (1906), Stalinist persecution (1952 Night of the Murdered Poets), the refusenik movement, and a post-1991 institutional revival.

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Saint Petersburg

Russia

Court Jews and capital elite under residence quotas (Gunzburg, Polyakov); home of the Grand Choral Synagogue (1893, second-largest in Europe) and Russia's second-largest community today.

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Kyiv

Ukraine

From the 10th-century Kievan Letter to Sholem Aleichem's Jewish Kiev and Babi Yar (29-30 Sept 1941: 33,771 Jews murdered in two days) - today Ukraine's largest, war-affected community.

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SOURCES & REVIEW

YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research / Yale University Press · 2010 · open source
Uzbekistan - Virtual Jewish History Tour
Jewish Virtual Library · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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