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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]
The theory of common origins of Tats and Mountain Jews (previously referred to as Judæo-Tats) has been vehemently dismissed by a number of researchers. [14] [15] Mountain Jews currently dominate the entire Jewish Diaspora of Azerbaijan. They speak a distinct dialect of the Tat language called Juhuri or Judæo-Tat. The majority speaks more than ...
The majority of the Jews in Temir-Khan-Shurá were Ashkenazi Jews, most of whom were members of the city’s merchant guild and were engaged in supplying the Russian army. [2] In the mid-19th century, the Mountain Jewish community was led by Sholem-Melech Mizrachi. [4] In 1858, Temir-Khan-Shurá had 200 residents, 89 of whom were Mountain Jews. [1]
The organisation plays an integral cultural role for Mountain Jews globally, through official representation of their interests – which includes engagement with governmental and social bodies. [1] It brings together the mountain Jews of Israel, United States, Russia, Canada, Azerbaijan, Germany, Austria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other countries.
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 ]
Judaism in Dagestan is mainly practiced by Mountain Jews.By the beginning of the 8th century BCE Mountain Jews had reached Persia from Israel. [1] Under the Sasanian Empire, with the arrival in Dagestan of Iranian-speaking tribes from the north, they settled in different regions of the Caucasus.
Qırmızı Qəsəbə [a] is a village and municipality in the Quba District of Azerbaijan.As of 2010, it had a population of 3,598, mostly Jews.It is widely believed to be the world's only population centre exclusively made up of Jewish people outside of Israel and the United States, [2] [3] [4] and is likewise considered to be the last surviving shtetl.
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 .