But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person: Jura Abaev died Jan. 15 at the age of 93, Radio Free ...

The once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person.

For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews ...

Jura Abaev, the last Jew who remained in the city of Khujand, Tajikstan, died Jan. 15 at the age of 93.

Khujand city authorities are now promising to build a new residential complex -- called Khujand City -- with local investors. It will be just 100 meters from the site of Khujand's ill-fated Chinatown.

But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person. tajikistan shul 298 88 ( photo credit : Jewish Agency ...

On November 8, violence broke out at the Khujand prison in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd region. Tajik authorities have been slow in revealing details about the prison riot but it now seems that ...