Private – Soviet – Tajik. The Bukharan Jewish Press from 1910 to 1940

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Loy, Thomas
Private – Soviet – Tajik. The Bukharan Jewish Press from 1910 to 1940.
[Press in the 19th and 20th centuries from Central Asia to Anatolia via Crimea and the Caucasus. Online, 30.11.2022]
Method of presentation: Zvaná přednáška
Event organizer: Jeanine Dagyeli and Yavuz Koese - University of Vienna - Turkology
URL events: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/past-lectures/ 
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Jews * Central Asia * press
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Over a period of thirty years, the Bukharan Jewish press was transformed from a pioneering privately owned enterprise that served the needs of the Persian-speaking Jewish communities throughout Central Asia to one owned and regulated by the Soviet state. The introduction of a Bukharan Jewish press in 1910 was intended to create a modernized language and ethnic awareness among the Jews of Central Asia. In the 1930s, Bukharan Jewish newspapers and journals were radically Sovietized, serving as a tool to transmit propaganda and to shape and educate a predefined ‘national minority group’. At the end of the decade they were finally shut down. Some of them were converted into Tajik-language periodicals, for which part of the former staff continued to work.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347418