History of the Jews in Uzbekistan

There were 94,900 Jews in Uzbekistan in 1989,[2] but fewer than 10,000 remained in 2021 (around 38% of which lived in Tashkent).

[4] Semyon Abdurakhmanov is the head of the Fergana Jewish community.

There are several hundred Jews in Fergana, Namangan, and Kokand, with about 1,300 total in the area.

Abdurakhmanov has said that the biggest problem faced by the Jewish Uzbek community is the economy.

During the Andijan Massacre in May 2005, the Israeli Embassy in Tashkent asked Abdurakhmanov to make a lists of Jews "in case there will be a need to airlift people to Israel".

Jewish children with their teacher in Bukhara . Photograph taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky sometime between 1909 and 1915.
Interior of the Synagogue of Bukhara