Editing Uzbekistan (section)

==== Jewish community ====
{{main|Uzbek Jews|Bukharian Jews}}
The Jewish community in the Uzbek lands lived for centuries, with occasional hardships during the reigns of certain rulers. During the rule of [[Tamerlane]] in the 14th century, [[Jews]] contributed greatly to his efforts to rebuild [[Samarkand]], and a great Jewish centre was established there.<ref name=JVL>{{cite web |date=30 July 2004 |title=Uzbekistan |website=Jewish Virtual Library |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Uzbekistan.html  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712005324/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Uzbekistan.html |archive-date=12 July 2015 |access-date=29 November 2015 }}</ref>
[[File:Bukharan Jews (before 1899).jpg|thumb|Bukharan Jews, c. 1899]]

After the area came under Russian rule in 1868, Jews were granted equal rights with the local Muslim population.{{r|JVL}} In that period some 50,000 Jews lived in Samarkand and 20,000 in [[Bukhara]].{{r|JVL}}

After the Russian revolutions in 1917 and the establishment of the Soviet regime, Jewish religious life (as with all religions) became restricted. By 1935 only one synagogue out of 30 remained in Samarkand; nevertheless, underground Jewish community life continued during the Soviet era.{{r|JVL}}

By 1970 there were 103,000 Jews registered in the [[Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic|Uzbek SSR]].{{r|JVL}} Since the 1980s most of the Jews of Uzbekistan emigrated to Israel or to the United States of America.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.jweekly.com/2002/09/20/bukharan-jews-now-in-queens-recreate-their-sukkot-memories/ | title=Bukharan Jews now in Queens recreate their Sukkot memories | work=The Jewish News of Northern California | date=20 September 2002 | access-date=30 July 2019 | archive-date=30 July 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730203728/https://www.jweekly.com/2002/09/20/bukharan-jews-now-in-queens-recreate-their-sukkot-memories/ | url-status=live }}</ref> A small community of several thousand remained in the country {{as of | 2013 | lc = on}}: some 7,000 lived in Tashkent, 3,000 in Bukhara and 700 in Samarkand.<ref>
[http://eajc.org/page277 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress] {{webarchive
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 |date= 24 December 2013 }} (retrieved 29 December 2013)
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