History of the Jews in Uzbekistan

Jewish children with their teacher in Bukhara. Photograph taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky sometime between 1909 and 1915.
Uzbek Jews
Total population
9,865[1]
Languages
Bukhori, Uzbek, Russian, and Yiddish
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Other Bukharan Jews
Russian Jews, Ashkenazi Jews

The history of the Jews in Uzbekistan refers to the history of two distinct communities; the more religious and traditional Bukharan Jewish community and the Ashkenazi community.

There were 94,900 Jews in Uzbekistan in 1989,[2] but fewer than 10,000 remained in 2021 (around 38% of which lived in Tashkent).[3]

There are 12 synagogues in Uzbekistan.[4]

Interior of the Synagogue of Bukhara
  1. ^ "Uzbek Census 2021". data.egov.uz.
  2. ^ World Jewish Population 2001 Archived 2013-12-06 at the Wayback Machine, American Jewish Yearbook, vol. 101 (2001), p. 561.
  3. ^ "Uzbek Census 2021". data.egov.uz.
  4. ^ Uzbek Jewish worries Archived 2013-01-04 at archive.today JTA