Bukharan Jews

[Al Hanif]

[Karachi]

were they originally from central asia? or migrants there?

[Al Hanif]

Bukharan Jews are Jews from Central Asia who speak Bukhori, a dialect of the Tajik-Persian language.

The Bukharan Jews are Mizrahi Jews[2] and have been introduced to and practice Sephardic Judaism.

In 1793, Rabbi Yosef Maimon, a Sephardic Jew from Tetuan, Morocco and prominent kabbalist in Safed, traveled to Bukhara and found the local Jews in a very bad state. He decided to settle there. Maimon was disappointed to see so many Jews lacking knowledge and observance of their religious customs and Jewish law. He became a spiritual leader, aiming to educate and revive the Jewish community's observance and faith in Judaism. He changed their Persian religious tradition to Sephardic Jewish tradition. Maimon is an ancestor of Shlomo Moussaieff, author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, and the First Lady of Iceland Dorrit Moussaieff.

In short, Bukharan Jews are Tajik Jews.