Talk:History of the Jews in Central Asia

Disputed
Comments in this article are not backed up by their sources or are the person point of view of an individual editor. Specifically, the line that says "many Americans and Israelis of Tajik Jewish descent have negative views towards Tajikistan." While this may have an element of truth to it, it needs to be cited and rewritten in a more nuanced fashion to reflect diversity in opinion. Also, the New York Times sources does not state that the there are more Ashkenazim rather than Bukharan Jews in the article, though it does state that there are not many Jews left in Tajikistan:David Straub (talk) 03:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Dushanbe
was a major field of study for the teacher of foreign policy studies known as

Robert Baer

. He lived in Dushanbe for a while, and even went skiing in a part of the former

USSR which still thought it was a part of the Russian Empire.

Shalom from Canada, and keep contributing.

Yosef.garibaldi.gmail (talk) 18:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Massacre in 1921
The Wik article cites a source for a massacre of the small Jewish population in the UB. Kdammers (talk) 07:29, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Bukharan
"About 2,000 Jewish Kazakhs are Bukharan and Juhuro"

No offense, but are you sure "Bukharan" is linking to the right article? Right now it leads to an article about a language spoken by Bukharan Jews. How can someone "be" a language? P4k 00:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * My mistake, I assumed it redirected to the people. KazakhPol 00:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I changed it so it's directed to Bukharan Jews. P4k 00:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Rabbi Cohen has applauded the efforts of the Nazarbayev administration in protecting the Kazakh Jewish community from anti-Semitic attacks, saying he has not encountered anti-Semitism since he came to Kazakhstan ten years earlier. 


 * And Borat weeps. Ruthfulbarbarity 19:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if somebody remarked, but the article is only talking about 'what did not happen' - does this mean that something actually happened or that everybody just likes to talk about what did not happen? 205.236.147.59 (talk) 05:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Kazakh Jews or History of the Jews in Kazakhstan
This really seems to me like it is more of a History of the Jews in Kazakhstan article then one that defines Kazakh Jews. I think it should be renamed. -SpeechFreedom 08:59, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Protection
This page is going to see a lot of vandalism because of Borat, so I think we should semi-protect it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahmeditor (talk • contribs) 05:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Article Name and Source Accuracy
Hi, I have two issues with this article that I have flagged on the article page and the discussion page:

1. Like SpeechFreedom writes, I think that this article should be renamed either a History of Jews in Kazakhstan or Kazakhstani Jews. Kazakh Jews implies that this article is about specifically ethnic Kazakh people whose religion is Jewish, rather than an article about the History of the Jewish community located in the Republic of Kazakhstan. This actually applies to the whole article ("Kazakh Government" should be "Kazakhstani Government" or "Government of Kazakhstan". Using Kazakh to mean the whole country of Kazakhstan is sloppy and inaccurate shorthand.

2. The Leonard Solomin story. I am not sure how this is a major point in the history of Jews in Kazakhstan. It is sourced to the Jewish Virtual Library, part of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. I see no problem with this source per se, but I would point out that that particular article is just making the point that anti-semitism exists among some people in some form in Kazakhstan - as it does in every country I might add, including Israel. The relevance of this event should be explained a little further. I'm not sure that this union leader's arrest was even a specifically anti-semitic act, even if it triggered the resulting intolerant media coverage. I also question the Library's sources as they talk about the "Kazakh KGB", which does not exist. The Committee of National Safety (KNB) does exist, and has since 1992. It's not a major issue, but it's like a report talking about the "Russian KGB" post 1991 - it makes me question how well-researched the story's sources are. I'm looking for more and better sources for this episode. I should mention that a brief google search of this person's name doesn't turn up anything about Kazakhstan. Any thoughts? Konchevnik81 (talk) 04:22, 13 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I have one thought. "In 1997 the Kazakh KGB" is a joke. nevertheless, I have done a bit of research:
 * Google Search gave the following excerpt from  "The Kazakh KGB was renamed the Committee of National Security in July. 1992 (Izvestiya, 14 July 1992, p. 1). 15. Sovetskaya Rossiya, 3 December 1991, p. 1. ..." The Committee of National Security appears to be the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, fonded, according to Wikipedia, the 13 July, 1992.--189.33.10.156 (talk) 23:23, 12 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree with Kochevnik on the second point. Being Jewish and having lived most of my life in Almaty, I know that antisemitism is not at all widespread in Kazakhstan, and considering how short the article is at the moment, this information makes one think that it is. Most importantly, however, i think it is misleading to leave it in Wikipedia because Jewish Virtual Library does not cite (doesn't even name) the newspapers where antisemitic rhetoric appeared, nor any other sources, so there is no way to verify it or expand on the story, which means we do not have a proper source. As long as this is the case, the info should be deleted.--Eliokim (talk) 19:27, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Move to Jews in Kazakhstan
As above, the article should be renamed to properly reflect that the subject matter is the whole Jewish community located in Kazakhstan, rather than ethnic Kazakhs who are Jewish. The renaming would be consistent with Jews in Ukraine not "Ukrainian Jews" or British Jews, not "English Jews".Konchevnik81 (talk) 13:33, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

borat
should me be mentioned —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.246.66.76 (talk) 23:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

10'000 jews
I just did some basic maths and took out a zero -AnCeallach — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.254.150 (talk) 20:23, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Serious editting needed (Uzbek Jews).
This article is so horribly written. I'm pretty sure of bunch of the info is outdated and incorrect if any. Oy. This is problematic.  Coffeegirlyme  ( talk ) &middot;   05:16, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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