The Media Line Staff 07/30/2021
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Join us for a dynamic interactive journey through the rich history of the Jews of the Caucasus.
About this event
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.