the makeshift rabbi of a Jewish population of 200 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan’s second city, and caretaker of its turquoise-domed, 19th-century synagogue, which is among Central Asia’s prettiest.

Abram Ishako, the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Central Asia recites for us a very special prayer, the Haqqoni, ...

Abram Isakov is the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Bukhara, one of the sacred cities of Islam.

Largely eclipsed by the horrors of the death camps, the fate of 800 Polish Jewish refugees who sought refuge in Asia is the subject of two documentaries and two recent events in Russia. SAMARKAND, ...