Introduction: Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 1. Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles 2. Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878?80 3. Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries 4. ‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature 5. ‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation 6. Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik 7. Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era 8. Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia