Lanterna Rally

Author: Muḣib

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ISBN-13: 9789657188385

Information from www.tibetbook.net : Kullijot – The Collected Works of the Bukharan Jewish writer and intellectual Mordaxaj H. Bačaev is both a great example of and a unique introduction to the culture and literature of the Bukharan Jews (the term is used for all Persian-speaking Jews of Central Asia) of the 20th century. Iranist Jiří Bečka called Muhib (the penname of Bačaev) the most prominent representative and continuator of Judeo-Persian literary tradition. Even in scholarly circles the works are scarcely known, since the rich cultural and literary heritage of this community is only published privately in very small editions and basically circulates only amongst the big Bukharan-Jewish communities in Israel and the United States. The Collected Works of Muhib for the first time provides the opportunity to for a broader access to history, language, culture, and literature of this extraordinary community. Biogramm: Mordaxaj ben Hijo Bačaev, penname Muhib; born 1911 in Marv (in today’s Turkmenistan); Bukharan-Jewish writer, poet, publicist and translator; 1929-1938 editor of the Samarkand (later Tashkent) magazines „Roşnaji“ and „Bajroq-i mehnat“; first publication 1929; 1938 arrested for „Jewish bourgeois nationalisms“ and „anti-soviet agitation“; 1939-1945 soviet concentration camp and forced labour in Ural; 1945-1954 banned from Tashkent and Samarkand, job in the mining administration of the Uzbek SSR; 1957 complete rehabilitation; 1955-1972 translator (Russ..-Taj.) at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism in Dushanbe (Tajik SSR); since 1973 M. H. Bačaev lives and works in Israel. Another volume with miscellaneous works on the author and contributions to his work will be published in 2007, but not as a part of the Collected Works.