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| | EurasiaNet Civil Society - Photo Project Captures End of an Ancient Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | It is, in its present configuration at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, an octagonal gallery hung with two dozen arresting fl and white photos - most of them portraits - of an ancient community seriously depleted by the events of the last century. |
 | | One can stand in the middle of the modest gallery and confront in a single revolution "musician, Ferghana"; "young bride, Karmana;" "synagogue caretaker, Tashkent; "tailor, Ferghana; and "knife-sharpener, Bukhara"; From a distance of five feet, the viewer can observe the Jewry of Uzbekistan in its most common representations. |
 | | For that, he says, he is planning to take another trip to Ferghana, Karmana, Kokand and Bukhara. |
| www.eurasianet.org /departments/civilsociety/articles/eav031706.shtml (738 words) |
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