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February 1, 2021

Mourning the Last Jew of Khujand

Jura Abaev once led one of Tajikistan’s oldest Jewish communities.

While the term Bukhari is generally used to describe members of Central Asia’s long-established Jewish communities and their descendants, many come from other places than the historical Silk Road metropolis of Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan. One important center of Bukhari Jewry was once Khujand in Tajikistan, which at its height had a Jewish population of several thousand. On January 15, Khujand’s last Jewish resident, Jura Abaev, died at the age of eighty-three. Farangis Najibullah and Farzon Muhammadi write:

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