Title
Mi-Samarkand ad Petaḥ-Tikvah: zikhronot ma'apil Bukhari
מסמרקנד עד פתח-תקוה: זכרונות מעפיל בוכארי
Category
Author/Originator
Asherov, Ḥayim Shlomo (1899-1972)Year of Publication/Creation
1977Place of Publication/Creation
Tel-AvivLanguage(s)
HebrewGeographic Places
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Samarkand (Samarqand), Uzbekistan (image 12)
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Kokand (Qoqun), Uzbekistan (image 79)
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Qyzylorda (Kzyl-Orda, Ak-Mejet, Ak-Mechet, Perovsk, Leninsk, Fort-Perovsky), Kazakhstan (image 107)
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Dushanbe (Dyushambe, Stalinabad), Tajikistan (image 108)
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Khujand (Khojand, Khodjent, Leninabad), Tajikistan (image 115)
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Turkistan, Kazakhstan (image 116)
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Karki (Tigranashen), Azerbaijan (image 120)
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Navoiy (Navoi, Kermine), Uzbekistan (image 125, 142)
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Margilan, Uzbekistan (image 127)
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Farghona (Fergana, Ferghana, Novy Margelan, Skobelev), Uzbekistan (image 129)
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Qarshi, Uzbekistan (image 130)
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Tashkent (Toshkent), Uzbekistan (image 133)
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Andkhoy, Afghanistan (image 143)
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Kabul, Afghanistan (image 144)
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Mashhad (Mashad, Meshed), Iran (image 149, 156, 161)
Asherov has written a beautiful overview of numerous aspects of traditional Jewish life in Samarkand. See image 142 for a list of the heads of Bukharan Jewish families who escaped the Soviet Union for Erets Yisrael (Palestine) via Kabul, Afghanistan in the mid-1930s.
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