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JTA — For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person: Jura Abaev died January 15 at the […]
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Last Jew in Tajikistani city dies after community thrived there for centuries
January 23rd, 2021 
Awake Goy 
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