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.

“Banks are for Ashkenazim,” Davidov said, referencing European Jews, during a visit to his native city of Samarkand last month. “When I’m established and done paying back my family members ...

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.

the language of his city and of Central Asian Jews from Samarkand to the borders of China. What does Haqqoni tell us about the culture of Central Asia? And as the Bukharan Jewish population ...