Iranian Jews
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Iranian Jews also known as Persian Jews constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Dating back to the biblical era, they originate from the Jews who arrived in Iran as Babylonian
Cyrus the Great allowing Hebrew pilgrims to return to the Land of Israel and rebuild Jerusalem, painting by Jean Fouquet circa 1470
Hebrew version of Nizami Ganjavi's "Khosrow and Shirin"
Synagogue in Tehran. A postcard from the Qajar (1794–1925) period.
Hamedan Jews in 1918
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
Iranian Jews
…the ancient (and until the mid-20th century still extant) communities not only of Iran, but also the Armenian, Georgian, Iraqi, Bukharan, Afghan and Mountain Jewish communities. Some of the communities have been isolated from other Jewish communities to the extent that their classification as "Persian Jews" is a…
Mountain jewish men
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