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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 ...
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 ...
By 1850, 10% of Atlanta stores were run by Jews, who only made up 1% of the population [3] and largely worked in retail, especially in the sale of clothing and dry goods. Many early Jewish settlers, however, did not end up settling permanently in Atlanta, and turnover in the community was high. [2]
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (Cuhuri, Жугьури, ז׳אוּהאוּראִ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. [1]
In 1926, 1,471 Jews lived in the city, making up 15.5% of the city’s population, including 980 Mountain Jews. [1] In 1932, the Mountain-Jewish collective farm (Russian: Новый быт) - "New Life" was created in the Buynaksk District with 170 people. [4] In 1939, only 196 Jews lived in the city. [4]
A Jewish family had the free-speech right to blanket their yard with signs decrying hate and racism after their next-door neighbor hurled an antisemitic slur at them during a property dispute 10 ...
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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