National Minorities in Uzbekistan. Jews in Uzbekistan. In 2 volumes

Prof. Gitlin's book in fact for the first time represents an actual informative lay er condition of national minorities in Uzbekistan, a large country of Central Asia

Objective analyse of complicated and contradictory development of Bukharan and European (Ashkenazic) Jews in this country in past and present is quite different from concepts common in the post-Soviet Central Asian countries. Great attention has been paid to conditions of Jews in Uzbekistan at different times: in the tsarist Russia, at Soviet time, especially at conditions of totalitary sy stem and of politics of state anti-Semitism. Myths of "undisturbed"' Jewish life in the Uzbekistan Republic in general and particularly at the time of the World War II have been unveiled. Contribution of Jews (as well as that of other peoples) to development of Uzbekistan, condition of Jews at the period of the "perestrovka"' and Jewish mass emigration from this republic have been described.

Various sources (including documents of archives and statistical materials mostly cited for the first time) would be interesting for wide readers' circle as well as for specialists on history of relations between peoples and nations in the Central Asian states.