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Who Are These "Mountain Jews"?

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Mikhail Chlenov, secretary general of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, introduces the classic volume Mountain Jews, edited by Iosef Begun and Valerii Dymshits. This essay presents the significance of the group as well as the book. Mountain or "Highland" Jews have cultural roots in the history of a far-flung Persian Jewish archipelago. Many Jews from mountainous villages in Dagestan and Azerbaijan in the post-Soviet period have fled long-established rural communities, often landing in Moscow as outsiders within an already "outsider" group.

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48(1)

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29-38

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Who Are These "Mountain Jews"?

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Chelnov, Mikhail A. Who Are These "Mountain Jews"?. Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia. 2009: 29-38.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.2753/AAE1061-1959480102