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  2. Mountain Jews - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Jews are not Sephardim (from the Iberian Peninsula) nor Ashkenazim (from Central Europe) but rather of Persian Jewish origin, and most of them follow Edot HaMizrach customs. Mountain Jews tenaciously held to their religion throughout the centuries, developing their own unique traditions and religious practices. [ 42 ]

  3. History of the Jews in Nalchik - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Jews lived compactly in a special district, where local Jews from other areas of the city moved after the occupation. [2] In early November 1942, several dozen Ashkenazi Jews (including evacuees) and 10 Mountain Jews were killed in Nalchik as "Soviet activists." After the registration of Jews, some of their property was confiscated.

  4. Mountain Jews in Israel - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  5. History of the Jews in Azerbaijan - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Jews in Azerbaijan dates back many centuries. Today, Jews in Azerbaijan mainly consist of three distinct groups: Mountain Jews, the most sizable and most ancient group; Ashkenazi Jews, who settled in the area during the late 19th-early 20th centuries, and during World War II; and Georgian Jews who settled mainly in Baku during the early part of the 20th century.

  6. Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry - Wikipedia

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    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Khazar Khaganate, 650–850 The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazar converts to Judaism. The Khazars were a ...

  7. Genetic studies of Jews - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Siege of Masada - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel.. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus, [3] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became a historian.

  9. History of the Jews in Buynaksk - Wikipedia

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    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]