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The Mountain Jewish community of Nalchik was the largest Mountain Jewish community occupied by Nazis, [31] and the vast majority of the population has survived. With the help of their Kabardian neighbors, Mountain Jews of Nalchik convinced the local German authorities that they were Tats , the native people similar to other Caucasus Mountain ...
In the 1940s and 1950s, most of the Mountain Jews in Nalchik were employed in the clothing and shoe industries. [2] In 1959, the vocal and instrumental "Mountain Jews Ensemble" was created at the shoe factory. It was later renamed the "Judeo-Tat Folk Vocal and Musical Ensemble" under the direction of Viktor Shabaev.
A 2002 study by geneticist Dror Rosengarten found that the paternal haplotypes of Mountain Jews "were shared with other Jewish communities and were consistent with a Mediterranean origin." [93] A 2016 study by Karafet at all found, with a sample of 17, 11.8% of Mountain Jewish men tested in Dagestan's Derbentsky District to belong to Haplogroup ...
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The toponymy of the North-Eastern Caucasus has preserved many names associated with Jews. For example, the mountain village in the Tabasaransky District is called Dzhugud-kala (literally, “Jewish fortress” or “fortress of the Jews”); the gorge near Madzhalis is Dzhut-Gatta, and the mountain in this area is Dzhufudag, meaning “Jewish ...
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Mountain Jews were among the first to make Aliyah, with some immigrating independent of the Zionist movement, while others came inspired by it. [2] They were represented at the Zionist congresses and the first Mountain Jewish settlers in Ottoman Syria established the modern Israeli town of Be'er Ya'akov in 1907. [ 2 ]
In his work Caucasian Jews-Mountaineers he came to the conclusion that the Mountain Jews were representatives of the Iranian family of the Tats, which had adopted Judaism in Iran and later moved to the South Caucasus. The ideas of Anisimov were supported during the Soviet period: the popularization of the idea of the Mountain Jews' Tat origin ...