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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 ...
The Middle Eastern Jewish populations have a connection to the Jewish communities of Europe and North Africa in their paternal gene pool, suggesting a common Middle Eastern origin between them. [53] In autosomal analyses, the Iraqi Jews, Iranian Jews, Bukharian Jews, Kurdish Jews, Mountain Jews, and Georgian Jews form a cluster.
The participants, representatives of the world mountain-Jewish community, international Jewish societies, members of the US Congress and of the American establishment, were presented as a gift the book "Mountain Jews", a fundamental study on the 600 years development of the history and culture of the Mountain Jews. [24] [25]
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 ]
Masada was last occupied during the Byzantine period, when a small church was established at the site. [28] The church was part of a monastic settlement identified with the monastery of Marda known from hagiographical literature. [29] This identification is generally accepted by researchers. [30]
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 ...
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.
The Jewish population data includes Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews, Bukharan Jews (or Central Asian Jews), Krymchaks (all per the 1959 Soviet census), and Tats. [ 11 ] In 1828, the Russo-Persian War came to an end and Eastern Armenia (currently the Republic of Armenia ) was annexed to the Russian Empire with the Treaty of Turkmenchai .