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Georgian Israelites or Jews of Georgia: Religious and National Dimensions of the Georgian-Jewish Identity
Author(s): Kakitelashvili, Ketevan
Date: 2021
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, National Identity, Nationalism
Abstract: The paper explores the evolution of Georgian-Jewish identity in different political, ideological, and cultural contexts from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. It is focused on the beginning of the twentieth century when religious and national dimensions of Georgian-Jewish identity were developed as competing identity models. This paper addresses the impact of these identity models on contemporary Georgian-Jewish identity.