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Performing Arts: A Modern Silk Road – Washington Life Magazine
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Join us for a dynamic interactive journey through the rich history of the Jews of the Caucasus.
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The Jewish community of the Caucasus, the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, is known by many names. The terms “Kavkazi,” taken from the Hebrew word for Caucasus, and “Mountain Jews”, have been used interchangeably. But traditionally this community have called themselves “Juhuro,” translated as “Jews”, from their ancestral language Juhuri, a Middle Persian-Jewish dialect
Kavkazi Jews lived in Azerbaijan and the Russian Republics of the North Caucasus – Dagestan, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachay-Cherkessia. However, their history dates back to the expulsion of the Jews from Israel in biblical times, when they found refuge in the Persian Empire in the 500-600s BCE.
February 17, 2021
A multivolume set of books on Uzbekistan s cultural treasures is shown at a conference in Tashkent. (Photo by Larry Luxner)
Uzbekistan’s Alisher Navoiy National Library is named after him. So is a metro station in Tashkent, the nation’s capital. Not to mention Navoi International Airport, as well as Uzbekistan’s second-largest province, Navoiy home to a million people and even a 41-mile-wide crater on the planet Mercury.
We’re talking here, of course, about 15th-century poet, statesman and scholar Alisher Navoiy considered the father of Uzbek literature.
On Feb. 9, the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington hosted a webinar to discuss the legacy of this famous man, who was born Feb. 9, 1441, exactly 580 years ago.