These Bygone Products. Via R/TheWayWeWere By @BB_67

The Jewish people of Uzbekistan photographed by Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“The term Bukharan was coined by European travelers who visited Central Asia around the 16th century. Since most of the Jewish community at the time lived under the Emirate of Bukhara, they came to be known as Bukharan Jews. The name by which the community called itself is “Isro'il” (Israelites). 

The appellative Bukharian was adopted by Bukharan Jews who moved to English-speaking countries, in an anglicisation of the Hebrew Bukhari. However, Bukharan was the term used historically by English writers, as it was for other aspects of Bukhara. 

Bukharan Jews used the Persian language to communicate among themselves and later developed Bukhori, a Tajik dialect of the Persian language with small linguistic traces of Hebrew. This language provided easier communication with their neighboring communities and was used for all cultural and educational life among the Jews. It was used widely until the area was “Russified” by the Russians and the dissemination of “religious” information was halted. The elderly Bukharan generation use Bukhori as their primary language but speak Russian with a slight Bukharan accent. The younger generation use Russian as their primary language, but do understand or speak Bukhori.

The Bukharan Jews are Mizrahi Jews and have been introduced to and practice Sephardic Judaism. 

The first primary written account of Jews in Central Asia dates to the beginning of the 4th century CE. It is recalled in the Talmud by Rabbi Shmuel bar Bisna, a member of the Talmudic academy in Pumbeditha, who traveled to Margiana (present-day Merv in Turkmenistan) and feared that the wine and alcohol produced by local Jews was not kosher. The presence of Jewish communities in Merv is also proven by Jewish writings on ossuaries from the 5th and 6th centuries, uncovered between 1954 and 1956.”

Hiroshi Yoshida.

Gustav Klimt

Three Ages of Woman (detail)

(via @lonequixote)

“The Pianist” (Roman Polański, 2002).

thought it belonged here

Unburdened by scholarly apparatus. Nemfrog. 2018. Source. 

sir i regret to inform you that i am almost exclusively controlled by the moon and can only do that which she permits.

‚The Apotheosis of war‘

Vereshchagin

– „To all great conquerors, past, present and to come“

How your Moon Sign might affect your Sun Sign

Moon = how you (your sun) feels and responds

Aries Moon - focuses on your sun’s “being”, it asserts your sun

Taurus Moon - makes your sun more conservative, sensual, and patient

Gemini Moon - makes your sun focus on quick thinking and is knowledge driven

Cancer Moon - makes your sun more focused on feelings, and feeling things out

Leo Moon - makes you sun sign “brighter”, makes your sun sign seek expression, recognition, attention

Virgo Moon - makes your sun sign more analytical, more detailed, and a focus on refinement

Libra Moon - makes your sun sign more focused on balance, harmony, and equality

Scorpio Moon - makes your sun sign more investigative and suspicious, more depth, desire driven

Sagittarius Moon - makes your sun sign more willing to seek, explore, ask questions, look for a purpose

Capricorn Moon - makes the sun more focused on use, professionalism, more goal oriented, how they can be useful, what is useful to them

Aquarius Moon- makes your sun sign more of a visionary, knowing, and forward thinking

Pisces Moon - makes your sun sign more empathetic, intuitive, and belief (idealism or illusion) driven