Georgian Jews
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Georgian Jews are a community of Jews who are thought to have migrated into Georgia during the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BCE. It is one of the oldest communities in the region. As a resu
A Jew from Akhaltsikhe, photo by Dmitri Yermakov, ca 1860s-1890s
The ancient Georgian capital of Mtskheta, where Jews lived for thousands of years
Interior of a Jewish house in Tbilisi
Georgian Jews of Tbilisi, c. 1900
Mountain Jews
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Mountain Jews are the Mizrahi Jewish subgroup of the eastern and northern Caucasus, mainly Azerbaijan, and various republics in the Russian Federation: Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia–Al
Georgian Jews
…should be distinguished from the Ashkenazi Jews in Georgia, who arrived following the Russian annexation of Georgia, as well as from the neighboring Mountain Jews (მთის ებრაელები, mtis ebraelebi), who are considered ethnically and culturally distinct from the kartveli ebraelebi. Prior to Georgia's annexation by…
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Synagogue at Qırmızı Qəsəbə, Azerbaijan
Synagogue in the Gilaki quarter of Qırmızı Qəsəbə, reopened in 1941 after being closed by the USSR
Mountain Jew Eric Sireni and his family with chokha resting after a day of work