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| | Mountain Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Mountain Jews speak Juhuri, or Judæo-Tat language, which is closely related to Middle Persian; it belongs to the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. | | | The Jews and their Armenian neighbors were the main producers of wine, an activity banned for Muslims by religion. | | | Tanning was the third most important activity after farming and gardening and at the end of the 19th century 6% of Jews were engaged in this trade. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Jews
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| | Petersburg judaica: Exhibitions |
| | Jews are known to have lived in Central Asia since the Achaemenid period in Iran. | | | The Mountain Jews and the Bukharan community are clearly descended from Persian Jews whose ancestors first arrived in Persia from Mesopotamia. | | | In addition to being spoken by Mountain Jews, the Tat language is common among the Moslem Tats (who in fact call themselves the Tats) and the Christian or Armenian Tats (who belong to the Armenian Gregorian Church). |
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http://judaica.spb.ru/exbsh/ex1/Gorsk_e.shtml
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Caucasian Mountain Jews |
| | ...The Mountain Jews have in the course of time adopted other Islamic customs from their neighbors, such as the sale of women, childmarriage, marriage by capture, customs relating to style of dress and dwelling, superstitions and black magic, talismans and amulets, as well as beliefs in demons and other spirits... | | | ...In contrast to other Jewish groups, there are no Cohanites or Levites among the Mountain Jews, and most of the names of both'men and women date back to the epoch of the wanderings of Israel in the Arabian desert or to the period of the Judges and Kings... | | | ...Mountain Jewish scholars participated in the creation of the Talmud, however, according to a rabbinic tradition... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V2I4P60-1.htm
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| | Caucasus Foundation |
| | Jew, or from an Iranian word for people of different faith. | | | Others retained their religion, and until the Russian conquest contact with other Persian Jews was regular. | | | Note: This information is taken from "The North Caucasus: Minorities at a Crossroads" written by Helen Krag and Larsh Funch. |
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http://www.kafkas.org.tr/english/bgkafkas/Ethnicgeography_Mountain_Jews_or_Tat.htm
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| | Here Was Morocco |
| | Jews seldom led a serene existence in Morocco for they were subject to the whims of their Moslem rulers. | | | Not all of the Jews were crowded into the Mellah. | | | The mountain cave desert dwellers, those who lived in the Mellahs, and the so-called Spanish Jews. |
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http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1446
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| | Petersburg judaica: Articles |
| | In fact, for the Mountain Jews commemoration of the dead relatives is now the main, and for some almost the only sustained religious activity, which has substituted all the other forms of community life. | | | From the Geres point of view, the Sabbatians 'followed the Jews, but not far enough', or 'do not understand that the Bible is the holy history, and Law comes from the wise ones'. | | | Despite the drastic changes in the lifestyle of the Jews from Red Sloboda, they largely stick to the traditional lifestyle. |
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http://judaica.spb.ru/artcl/a2/Azer_e.shtml
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| | Mountain Jews-Gorskie Evrei by Vadim Alhasov |
| | Besides there is ieshiva attached to the Mountain-Jewish synagogue (the head of the religious community of the Mountain Jews in Baku – Ikhiilov Semen Borisovich). | | | It states: “The Jews for centuries settled and living in our country never suffered from persecution, discrimination, they had preserved their national-cultural traditions and habits. | | | However, according to the opinion of the head of the religious community in Krasnaya Sloboda Simanduyev Boris Yusifovich and majority of active workers of the community this forecast is wrong (it exists for tens of years). |
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http://www.juhuro.com/pages/english/english_agarun.htm
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| | Chabad-Centers : |
| | Living for centuries as a small minority among Muslims and Christians, and isolated by geography and distance from other Jewish communities, the Mountain Jews steadfastly clung to the laws of the Torah, eating matzah on Passover and marrying within the religion. | | | Half live in Israel, and their culture is being absorbed into the larger culture of that country, where Mountain Jews no longer need to fiercely guard their separateness in order to maintain their Jewish identity. | | | And though none of the fighting of the past two weeks took place in areas where Jews live, it prompted many families to begin the process of moving away, mostly to join their predecessors in Israel. |
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http://www.chabadonline.com/scripts/tgij/paper/Articlenews.asp?ArticleID=1036
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| | Religion Revisited :: Dispatch 4 |
| | Citing the research of Oxford University historian Martin Gilbert, Davydov pointed out that although Mountain Jews were exposed to the Jewish cultures of Turkey and Iran, they still maintained many of their original traditions, including 18-month engagements before marriage and unique prayers for the dead. | | | Although they maintain their separate traditions and primarily marry other Mountain Jews, they enjoy close relations with other Jewish denominations. | | | And new Christian movements like Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists celebrated the fact that they do not celebrate, as least as far as national holidays and some Christian festivals are concerned. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/religion2004/dispatch4.html
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| | John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews |
| | Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem. | | | Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship. | | | Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." |
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http://bible.cc/john/4-20.htm
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| | Are Mountain Jews Descended from the Khazars? |
| | Eldad Hadani, the Jewish traveler who visited this region in the late ninth century C.E., mentioned that the Jews of the Caucasian mountains lived harmoniously among neighbors who worshipped fire and married their mothers, daughters, and sisters.... | | | Their language is Juwri (Juhuri), of Old Persian origin, related to the Persian spoken by Jews in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and also containing many Turkic and Semitic elements. | | | An anthropological feature of Mountain Jews is the prevalence among them of names from the Pentateuch, from the books of Prophets and Empires. |
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http://www.khazaria.com/mountainjews.html
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| | 6.2 The Mountain Jews of Guba |
| | About 5,600 people live here in the Mountain Jews' capital, Krasnaya Sloboda, which may be the only all-Jewish town left in that long arc of East European territory known as the Pale, which brushed against Azerbaijan and was once dotted with shtetls [small town communities]. | | | Unlike the more European, Ashkenazi Jews of the former Soviet Union, who largely stopped practicing religion, Mountain Jews clung as tenaciously to their faith as their villages have clung to the rocky Caucasus terrain. | | | The people living in the Turkish-style houses perched on this gentle hillside are a distinct ethnic group called Mountain Jews, the remnants of an obscure Jewish community that managed to survive intact through 2,000 years of Persian, Turkish, Russian and Soviet rule. |
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http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/62_folder/62_articles/62_mountainjews.html
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| | The Jews of Africa -- Other Dispersed Jewish Communities |
| | Jews began to emigrate from Yemen in 1882 and many landed in Israel. | | | Before the Islamic revolution in 1979 there were 80,000 Jews in Iran, and though most have emigrated to Israel, there is still a dedicated Jewish community in Tehran. | | | As the poor Trujillo Jews became more observant they found that they were not able to acquire sufficient ritual objects such as prayer books (siddurim) or prayer shawls (tallisim). |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/dispersed.htm
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| | NCSJ - Mountain Jews |
| | "It is harder with a Mountain Jew because even if he has the pull to religion, he thinks, 'I am already religious. | | | A death is strictly marked with prayers and a traditional Mountain Jew | | | Some religious Mountain Jews tenaciously hold this belief. |
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http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/032002IJM.shtml
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| | the Khazars and the Modern Jews |
| | Not only had numerous Jews lived in this region for centuries (coming from Palestine and Parthia), but there were Turks, other races and even residual Israelites from the ten tribes whose main body had migrated through this region on the way to Europe. | | | The above commandment required full admittance of Edomites into the congregation of Israel "in the third generation." The Edomites (Turks) living in Khazaria who became Jews were regarded by divine law to be fully assimilated into the tribe of Judah by the time the third generation was born. | | | This viewpoint assumes: (A) all Khazars were gentile, (B) all Khazars accepted Judaism and (C) no members of the house of Judah were already living among the Khazars. |
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http://britam.org/steven-collins-khazars.html
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| | EurasiaNet Culture |
| | Legend has it that the mountain Jews of Azerbaijan are descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel, having fled the Holy Land after the destruction of the first temple in 722 b.c. | | | At the same time, efforts have been undertaken to revive the town’s religious traditions, including the renovation of the town’s synagogues. | | | The mountian Jews have survived centuries of persecution, most recently at the hands of Soviet authorities. |
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http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/culture/articles/eav033001.shtml
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| | Jews of Bukhara |
| | It seems logical, therefore, that Jews from Persia and especially Khiva reached Samarkand and Bukhara no later than the fourth century A.D., and possibly even earlier. | | | However, in 224 A.D., the Parthians were displaced by the Sassinids, who made Zoroastrianism the state religion. | | | During the centuries which followed, adherents of minority religions such as Mithraism, Christianity and Judaism became targets of official displeasure. |
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http://members.dancris.com/~byblos/bukloss.htm
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| | S.C.J. FAQ: Section 13.4. Jews as a Nation: Who were the Khazars? Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from the Khazars? |
| | The Kievan Letter, found in the Cairo Genizah, written by the Khazar Jews of Kiev in the early 10th century. | | | It seems that after the fall of their kingdom, the Khazars adopted the Cyrillic script in place of Hebrew and began to speak East Slavic (sometimes called "Canaanic" because Benjamin of Tudela called Kievan Rus the "Land of Canaan"). | | | These Slavic-speaking Jews are documented to have lived in Kievan Rus during the 11th-13th centuries. |
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http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/13-04.html
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| | Kulanu: Hebrew Names |
| | The tradition is that the Jews were redeemed from Egypt because they kept their Hebrew language, their traditional clothes and their Hebrew names. | | | If my theory is correct and the Kazars were of Israelite origins to begin with then the Mountain Jews who are their descendents and the Pashtun tribes of Israelite origin should have similar names. | | | So do the Mountain Jews who might be the missing link in all this. |
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http://www.kulanu.org/links/names.html
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| | The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire |
| | These Jews are considered to be ancient inhabitants of Georgia, and according to old Georgian manuscripts they settled there in the first centuries AD. | | | Therefore religion and religious leaders (rabbis or hahamis) have played an important role in the social life of the Georgian Jews. | | | In 1926 there were about 20,000 Georgian Jews. |
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http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/georgian_jews.shtml
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| | JDC programs worldwide israel Integrating Caucasus Mountain Jews into Israeli Society |
| | Lack of Hebrew proficiency: nearly half of the adult Mountain Jews in Israel cannot write in Hebrew, and over a third cannot read Hebrew. | | | Success in this realm cannot be attained without the full cooperation and assistance of the community, which has much to contribute. | | | The lynchpin of JDC's work with the Mountain Jews in Israel is therefore involvement of the community itself. |
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http://www.jdc.org/p_is_ps_vulnerable_2.html
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| | Jewish Communities in Exotic Places (Jews of Ethiopia, Asia, Middle East) |
| | The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion | | | Jewish Communities in Exotic Places (Jews of Ethiopia, Asia, Middle East) | | | Originally Greek-speaking, the Romaniotes were Jews driven into Roman lands after the destruction of the Second Temple and Bar Kochba revolt, and lived under Byzantine rule. |
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http://www.khazaria.com/blady.html
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| | July/August 1994 |
| | Their language was a Tatar dialect and their dress and many of their customs also resembled those of the Karaites and the Tatars. | | | (See Salo Baron: A Social and Religious History of the Jews, Vol. | | | In 1939 the Jewish population of the Crimea was 50,000 (40,000 Ashkenazic Jews, 4,000 Karaites and 6,000 Krimchaks). |
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http://members.aol.com/askinazy/crimeajw.html
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| | Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World |
| | There are some Ashkenazi Jews in Nalchik today, but the community primarily is Mountain Jewish, who are religiously conservative and traders by tradition. | | | Several thousand of them fled Abkhazia, and hundreds fled South Ossetia. | | | Spread across independent Azerbaijan and the highland republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, the Mountain Jews are believed to have arrived from Persia in the 5th century CE. |
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540599159&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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| | UPNE Mountain Jews |
| | According to tradition Caucasian Jews descended from the Ten Tribes exiled from the Kingdom of Israel in the first millenium BCE, making them one of the oldest communities of Jewish people anywhere. | | | The term "Mountain Jews" (they call themselves "Juhur") dates back to Imperial Russia& occupation of the Caucasus in the early nineteenth century, when the tsar’s visiting representative referred to "Mountain Jews" living mainly in the east and north of the Caucasus range, in what is today the largely Muslim areas of Dagestan and Azerbaijan. | | | The fruit of many years of field work and extensive research, Mountain Jews presents, in words and striking pictures of this people and its practices, the history, spiritual life, language and literature, daily life, material culture, and decorative arts which together define the rich and extraordinary cultural heritage of Caucasian, "Mountain" Jews. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/965-278-315-3.html
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| | In mixed villages it was customary for Muslims and Jews to invite each other to their festivities, and, from Baku to Nalchik, for Muslims to engage Jewish musicians at their celebrations. | | | The close relations between Jews and Muslims throughout eastern and northern Caucasus during the past 500 years are reflected in their musical culture. | | | The central role which Jews played in the musical life of this area is also reflected in the writings of Muslim writers such as A.M. Umakhanova (1991:44). |
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http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/tmr/tmr04008.htm
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| | NCSJ - Mountain Jews Keep Culture Alive |
| | As for the mysterious tongue called Gorsky, spoken by Mountain Jews worldwide, it stems from the Persian language of Farsi. | | | Moscow's Mountain Jews, who number some 15,000, print one of four Gorsky newspapers in the world, and are due to release a new film on their history and plan a music festival for next spring. | | | The newly elected president of the World Congress of Mountain Jews is eager to talk about the language, festive dish and musical instrument of his people. |
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http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/112003_Gilalov.shtml
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Mountain Jews: A Handbook (Peoples of the Caucasus Handbooks) |
| | Includes chapters written by experts in the field, covering all aspects of the people, including history, religion, politics, economy, culture, literature and media. | | | It includes chapters written by experts in the field, covering all aspects of the people, including their history, religion, politics, economy, culture, literature and media, plus pictures, chronologies and appendices of up-to-date statistics, maps and bibliographies. | | | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Mountain Jews: A Handbook (Peoples of the Caucasus Handbooks) |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/070070650X/essexlibraries
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| | Khazaria.com - History of Jewish Khazars, Khazar Turk, Khazarian Jews |
| | The fourth page queries whether Jews who live in the Caucasus today descend from Khazar converts. | | | The Jews of Spain were introduced to facts about the Khazar kingdom largely through the efforts of Hasdai ibn Shaprut, vizier and physician to the Spanish caliphs, who wrote a letter to King Joseph of the Khazars. | | | Are Russian Jews Descended from the German and Bohemian Jews? |
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http://www.khazaria.com
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| | Are East-Caucasian Jews Descended from the Khazars (or other proselytes) |
| | Are East-Caucasian Jews Descended from the Khazars (or other proselytes) | | | Are East-Caucasian Jews Descended from the Khazars (or other proselytes)? | | | The modern Rabbinic Judaism is against blood vengeance, but there are cases, like Shalhevet Pas ((äùí éð÷åí ãîä1-year girl, killed by Arab terrorists, her father a religious Jew was accused in leading a “Jewish terror” group. |
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http://2pic.20m.com/ECJ.html
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| | Entry 21: Gali Alti |
| | I most of last week in Barda where Save the Children has their program offices and where I visited a lot of the communities that we were working with. | | | Havila is a fellow intern from Baku who is studying this part of the world and has spent a lot of time in Azerbaijan. | | | The fortress keep was at the highest point of the mountain and some really |
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http://www.kiffer.us/entries/Entry21.html
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| | Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Mountain Jews: Customs and Daily Life in the Caucasus |
| | A remarkable and richly illustrated look at the unique and enduring heritage of the 80,000 Israeli Jews who trace their roots to the Caucasus Mountains. | | | Mountain Jews: Customs and Daily Life in the Caucasus | | | Haut de la page : Mountain Jews: Customs and Daily Life in the Caucasus |
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http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/9652783153/literaturazonde
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| | F&P Dagestan (Daghestan), Republic of |
| | This site is about a group who call themselves Juurho, (also known as "Mountain Jews", or, sometimes "Tats") who live mostly in the Northern Caucasus, along the west cost of Caspian Sea in Dagestan, Georgia or Azerbaijan. | | | This breathtaking area is located between Caspian sea on the East and mountain ranges on the West and borders Chechnya, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. | | | Describes a 1992 trip by Paul Knott and others to this republic sandwiched between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea. |
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http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/life/communities/dagestan.html
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| | Kahane.org FORUM |
| | same with mountains jews, mountain jews are mizrahis | | | go here to see pics of mountain jews http://www.jafi.org.il/aliyah/dept/spotlight/1099/dagestan.html | | | there is two kind of REAL jews, pharadsim (ashkenazi way of look ) |
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http://www.kahane.org/discus/messages/2/850.html?1011258078
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| | Adherents.com |
| | 295: "Aside from the Mountain Jews and the Christian Cossacks, the peoples of Dagestan are almost exclusively Muslim. | | | Most are Sunni Muslims, but Shiites, Jews, and a small group of Christians live there as well. | | | Twining, David T. The New Eurasia: A Guide to the Republics of the Former Soviet Union. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_51.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Mountain Jews |
| | Look for books like Mountain Jews by subject: | | | You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/9652783153
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| | JTA NEWS |
| | Zaur Gilalov, a successful businessman and the head of the World Congress of Mountain Jews, was shot to death here last Friday. | | | Caucasus Jewish leader Zaur Gilalov, left, meets with Israeli Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi Yona Metzger during a fall 2003 trip to Israel. | | | MOSCOW, March 7 (JTA) — The motive behind the killing of a prominent Jewish leader from the Caucasus Mountains is unknown. |
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http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13844&intcategoryid=2
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| | Jews of Azerbaijan |
| | Money woes delay new synagogue for Jews living in Baku, Azerbaijan | | | Life drains away from lost tribe of Mountain Jews |
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http://www.haruth.com/JewsAzerbaijan.html
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| | GJDate.Com |
| | Who knows what is the population of gorskiy jews,......... | | | Our Service is absolutely FREE, so join now to use all of the great features of this community portal. | | | Jews Safe in Nalchik Unrest, But Relatives in US Worry About... |
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http://www.GJDate.Com
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| | JTA NEWS |
| | Sister-in-laws Galina and Nadezhda Shalumova, at right, are Mountain Jews from the southern Russian city of Nalchik, and now live in Brooklyn. | | | Bush presses Israel, P.A. GOP man gets key UJC slot |
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http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15959&intcategoryid=2
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| | Entry 20: Trip to Xinaliq & Guba |
| | The trip which was long and complicated and fantastic involved a death defying jeep ride up a mountain and through several serious rivers, sleeping in a | | | mountain pass and then down through a valley knee deep in | | | at the top of a mountain in a very |
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http://www.kiffer.us/entries/Entry20.html
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