Religious - Jewish - The Caucasus Mountains Region and Surrounding Areas

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Religion - Jewish - The Caucasus Mountains Region and Surrounding Areas

JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, FAITHS, GROUPS, ETC.,: Sites related to Jewish organizations or groups arranged by country or geographic area. These Jews are followed into their diasporas or emigrations.

INDEX BY COUNTRY OR GEOGRAPHIC AREA

Armenia	Georgia	Subbotniks and Molokans
Artsakh	Iran	Tats or Mountain Jews
Azerbaijan	Iraq	-
Caucasus Mountain Region	Kurdistan	-
Dagestan	Nagorno Karabakh	-

Jewish Religious Sites for the Caucasus Mountains Region

The Tats or Mountain Jews

The Mountain Jews. From The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
Tat: Bibliographical guide.
Mountain Jews. From www.juhuro.com.
Are Mountain Jews Descended from the Khazars? - An Examination of Jewish Tribes from the Eastern Caucasus. By Kevin Alan Brook.
Mountain Jews: There Was No Anti-Semitism In Azerbaijan.
Mountain Jews. From www.juhuro.com.
Expedition to Azerbaijan in June 1997. By V. A. Dymshits.
The Mountain Jews Of Azerbaijan Adapt To Freedom - A EurasiaNet photo essay by Jason Eskenazi. From EURASIANET.org.

Other Caucasian General Jewish Sites

Caucasus. From JewishEncyclopedia.com.
Chosen People From the Caucasus. [Book Review].

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Jewish Religious Sites for Dagestan

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Republic of Georgia

Georgia Page. From Jewish Communities of the World.
Georgia Country Page. From NCSJ. [National Conference on Soviet Jewry].
Jewish History of Georgia. From History of Georgia. By Heritage Films.
[Picture of Jewish Synagouge in Batumi - Autonomous Republic of Ajaria].

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh

Armenia Page. From Jewish Communities of the World.
Armenia Country Page. From NCSJ. [National Conference on Soviet Jewry].
The Jewish Community [of Armenia]. From Cultural Diversity in Armenia.
"Mordekhay Navi" Center of The [Jewish] Religious Community of Armenia.
Weiner, Willy - Exodus.
The Unexpected Discovery of Vestiges of the Medieval Armenian Jews. By Kevin Alan Brook.
Jews in Armenia - The Hidden Diaspora. By Vartan Akchyan. [Zoks (Christians of Jewish ancestry), Subbotniks (Jews of Christain ancestry), and others].
Jews in Armenia - The Hidden Diaspora. A film. Includes a section about a group of Subbotniks living on the shores of Lake Sevan as well as other segments of the Jewish presence in Armenia.
Antisemitism in Armenia. Find Feb. 1, 2005. From The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism.

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Republic of Azerbaijan [Includes Mountain Jews, Jewish Tats, Juhur and Dagh Chufuti]

Azerbaijan Page. From Jewish Communities of the World.
Azerbaijan Country Page. From NCSJ. [National Conference on Soviet Jewry].
Jewish Community of Azerbaijan - Country Report. From Mountain Jews - www.juhuro.com.
Juhurim.
The JOINT Jewish Center Opened in Baku. From The State Committee of Azerbaijan Republic for the Work with Religious Associations.
EXPEDITION TO AZERBAIJAN IN JUNE 1997 - V.A.Dymshits Research center "Petersburg Judaica".
Mountain Jews: There Was No Anti-Semitism In Azerbaijan.
Jewish Charity Center "Hesed Gershon".
Anti-Semitism in Azerbaijan: Two Synagogues Desecrated in Baku, Azerbaijan.
AZERBAIJAN: Religious freedom survey June 2003. From Forum 18.
List of Registered Religious Communities up to 01 April, 2003 [in Azerbaijan]. Lists all religious persuasions.

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Jewish Religious Sites for Kurdistan and Kurdish Jews

Judaism in Kurdistan. From the Kurdish Worldwide Resources.
Judaism in Kurdistan. From The Encyclopaedia of Kurdistan. [Same info as in above site].
Yedidut - The Israeli Kurdish Friendship League.
The Jews of Kurdistan, Daily Life, Customs, Arts and Crafts - by Ora Shwartz-Be'eri. [Information about a book].
The Israeli Kurdish Jewry Organization. [In Hebrew?].
The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews. By Kevin Alan Brook. Brook says Kurds are the Closest Relatives of Jews.

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iranian Jews

Iran. From Jewish Communities of the World.
Sephardic Jews of Iran. From BSZ Net - Gateway to Sephardic Resources.
Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History.
Weathering the Storm - The Current Situation of Jews in Iran [1997].
Arrests Shake Ancient Roots of Iran's Jews - By John F. Burns. New York Times On the Web - October 17, 1999.
IRAN: Life of Jews Living in Iran Iran remains home to Jewish enclave. From Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture.

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Islamic Republic of Iraq and Iraqi Jews

Iraq. From Jewish Communities of the World.
Jews of Iraq. From Haruth.Com.
The Jews of Iraq. By Mitchell Bard. From Jewish Virtual Library.
Sephardic Jews of Iraq. From BSZ Net - Gateway to Sephardic Resources
Welcome to the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center. Their Links page.
Iraqi Jews Who Left Bagdad During the 1960's and 1970's.
Jewish presence in Iraq is dying - Once-prosperous population is almost extinct. By Leon Barkho.
Babylonian Jewish Center BJC. Great Neck, New York.

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Subbotniks and Molokans of the Caucasus Region and Southern Russia

Dubrovin Farm and Yesud haMa'ala [of Upper Galilee, Republic of Israel]. [Includes Subbotnik settlers from what is now southern Republic of Azerbaijan. The Subbotniks were originally ethnic Slavs of Christian background from Russia].
70 Molokan families converted to Judaism in Saratov, Russia, before 1925.

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Last Updated: December 15, 2006

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