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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]
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Morocco, the North African nation with the largest Jewish population both at the start of the 20th Century and today, [26] had a Jewish population of ~275,000 at its peak around the time of the establishment of Israel. [27] A significant number of Moroccan Jews are descendants of the Berber-speaking Jews who once lived in the Atlas Mountains. [28]
Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland).
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the tensions between the Jewish and Muslim communities increased. [8] Today, the indigenous Berber Jewish community no longer exists in Morocco. The Moroccan Jewish population rests at about 2,200 persons with most residing in Casablanca, [9] some of whom might still be Berber speakers. [10]
The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a multi-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people, Judaism, and Israel. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings. First published in 1971–1972, by 2010 it had been published in ...
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Jewish centers were closed down, and the Muslims of the region forced conversion on a significant number of Bukharan Jews (over one-third, according to one estimate), under a threat of torture and agonizing execution. [33] These Jews who forcibly converted were known as Chala's, a term meaning "neither this nor that." [34]