Comments on: Shul Destruction

By: HABIB

HABIB — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:55:53 +0000

Hi dear janem may i request you something please can you tell me how can i contact with monisha dawlat (Tajik’s Singer ) please tell me if know something. I don’t know how to contact her because i live faraway i live in Australia.
Thanks alot from Habib

By: Tajik Boy

Tajik Boy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:18:20 +0000

I believe Shoista Mulojonova (famous folk singer) and Malika Kalandarova (famous dancer) are among the artists. There were more, but I was too young to remember the names.

By: elizmr

elizmr — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:38:57 +0000

Hi, I made a Wikipedia page on the Synagogue history and demoliton that might be of interest. The URL is above.

I am interested in the names of former Tajik artists and singers. Could you mention some of them?

By: Tajik Boy

Tajik Boy — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:55:39 +0000

Aidan,

Checked your site for Jews of Bukhara. Their native language is Tajik as evidenced from one of their Bukharian Jew language posts. Their names are Tajik too. This explains why I could not understand how they were a different nation.

By: Tajik Boy

Tajik Boy — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:42:56 +0000

Yes, most of Jews, Germans and Russians have left the country long ago. Tajik media goes to Israel though to take interviews from former famous Tajik artists and singers (who knew they were Jews?). I remember a woman famous Tajik folk song singer cried when she heard Tajiks were asking for an interview. She was in a home away from home….

By: Aidan Kehoe

Aidan Kehoe — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:16:27 +0000

Tajik government clearly is not doing a right thing, but you should take into account the fact that it would probably destroy a mosque or a church if it needed the land. The point I am making is that the actions of the Tajik government aren�t necessarily anti-semitic.

I suspect it’s going to be spun that way, all the same. The Tajik-speaking Jews of Bukhara seem to have all left, and gone to New York and Israel–has the same been true in Tajikistan?

By: Tajik Boy

Tajik Boy — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:32:22 +0000

I lived in Tajikistan most of my life but did not know the difference bw Tajiks and Jews (since they speak Tajik) until I was told they were Jews. Neither was I aware they had a synagogue although I lived in Dushanbe (althought with my lack of interest towards religion as a whole, it is not a surprise).

Tajik government clearly is not doing a right thing, but you should take into account the fact that it would probably destroy a mosque or a church if it needed the land. The point I am making is that the actions of the Tajik government aren’t necessarily anti-semitic.

It is quite interesting how articles say that the synagogue belongs to Jewish community in Uzbekistan. Legally, the land is owned by the government before and after the collapse of Soviet Union.

The other thing I can’t get my head around is why this 1-year-old story is being revisited now? UNESCO started sending letters to Tajik government in 2004. I can’t believe people waited for a year (until the building is almost destroyed) to tell the story.