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Mountain Jews or Caucasus Jews, also known as Juhuro, Juvuro, Juhuri, Juwuri, Juhurim, Kavkazi Jews or Gorsky Jews (
The forerunners of the Mountain Jewish community have inhabited
It is believed that Mountain Jews reached Persia from Israel as early as the 8th century BCE. They continued to migrate east, settling in mountainous areas of the Caucasus. Mountain Jews survived numerous historical vicissitudes by settling in extremely remote and mountainous areas. They were known to be accomplished warriors and horseback riders.[11]
Mountain Jews are distinct from Georgian Jews of the Caucasus Mountains. The two groups are culturally differentiated: they speak different languages and have many differences in customs and culture.[12]
History
Early history
Mountain Jews, or Jews of the Caucasus, have inhabited the Caucasus since the fifth century CE. Being the descendants of the Persian Jews of Iran, their migration from Persia proper to the Caucasus took place in the Sasanian era (224–651).[7] It is believed that they arrived in Persia from ancient Israel as early as the 8th century BCE.[13] Other sources attest that Mountain Jews were present in the region of Azerbaijan at least since 457 BCE.[14][15] However, Mountain Jews only took shape as a community after Qajar Iran ceded the areas in which they lived to the Russian Empire per the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813.[9]
Mountain Jews have an oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation, that they are descended from the
Mountain Jews maintained a strong military tradition. For this reason, some historians
A 2002 study by geneticist Dror Rosengarten found that the paternal haplotypes of Mountain Jews "were shared with other Jewish communities and were consistent with a Mediterranean origin."
1600s–1800s: "The Jewish Valley"
By the early 17th century, Mountain Jews formed many small settlements throughout the mountain valleys of
In Chechnya, Mountain Jews partially assimilated into Chechen society by forming a Jewish teip, the Zhugtii.[18] In Chechen society, ethnic minorities residing in areas demographically dominated by Chechens have the option of forming a teip in order to properly participate in the developments of Chechen society such as making alliances and gaining representation in the Mekhk Khell, a supreme ethnonational council that is occasionally compared to a parliament.[19] Teips of minority-origin have also been made by ethnic Poles, Germans, Georgians, Armenians, Kumyks, Russians, Kalmyks, Circassians, Andis, Avars, Dargins, Laks, Persians, Arabs, Ukrainians and Nogais,[18][20] with the German teip having been formed as recently as the 1940s when Germans in Siberian exile living among Chechens assimilated.[19]
Mountain Jews have also settled in the territory of modern Azerbaijan. The main Mountain Jewish settlement in Azerbaijan was and remains Qırmızı Qəsəbə, also called Jerusalem of the Caucasus.[21][22] In Russian, Qırmızı Qəsəbə was once called Еврейская Слобода (translit. Yevreyskaya Sloboda), "Jewish Village"; but during Soviet times it was renamed Красная Слобода (translit. Krasnaya Sloboda), "Red Village".[23]
In the 18th–19th centuries, Mountain Jews resettled from the highland to the coastal lowlands but carried the name "Mountain Jews" with them. In the villages (
In 1902, The New York Times reported that clans of Jewish origin, who maintain many of the customs and the principal forms of religious worship of their ancestors, were discovered in the remote regions of the Eastern Caucasus.[24]
Soviet times, Holocaust and modern history
By 1926, more than 85% of Mountain Jews in Dagestan were already classed as urban. Mountain Jews were mainly concentrated in the cities of Makhachkala, Buynaksk, Derbent, Nalchik and Grozny in North Caucasus; and Quba and Baku in Azerbaijan.[25]
In the
The Soviet Army's advances in the area brought the
In 1944, the
Given the marked changes in the 1990s following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and rise of nationalism in the region, many Mountain Jews permanently left their hometowns in the Caucasus and relocated to Moscow or abroad.[34] During the First Chechen War, many Mountain Jews left due to the Russian invasion and indiscriminate bombardment of civilian population by the Russian military.[35] Despite historically close relations between Jews and Chechens, many also suffered high rate of kidnappings and violence at the hands of armed ethnic Chechen gangs who ransomed their freedom to "Israel and the international Jewish community".[33] Many Mountain Jews emigrated to Israel or the United States.[36][37]
Today, Qırmızı Qəsəbə in Azerbaijan remains the biggest settlement of Mountain Jews in the world, with the current population over 3,000.[citation needed]
Economy
While elsewhere in the Russian Empire, Jews were prohibited from owning land (excluding the Jews of
The Soviet authorities bound the Mountain Jews to
With increasing urbanization and sovietization in progress, by the 1930s, a layer of intelligentsia began to form. By the late 1960s, academic professionals, such as pharmacists, medical doctors, and engineers, were common in the community. Mountain Jews worked in more professional positions than did Georgian Jews, though less than the Soviet Ashkenazi community, who were based in larger cities of Russia. A sizable number of Mountain Jews worked in the entertainment industry in Dagestan.[38] The republic's dancing ensemble "Lezginka" was led by Tankho Israilov, a Mountain Jew, from 1958 to 1979.[39][40]
Religion
Mountain Jews are not
Mountain Jews have traditionally maintained a two-tiered
The religious survival of the community was not without difficulties. In the prosperous days of the Jewish valley (roughly 1600-1800 CE), the spiritual center of Mountain Jews centered on the settlement of Aba-Sava.[17] Many works of religious significance were written in Aba-Sava. Here, Elisha ben Schmuel Ha-Katan wrote several of his piyyuts.[17] Theologian Gershon Lala ben Moshke Nakdi, who lived in Aba-Sava in 18th century, wrote a commentary on the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. Rabbi Mattathia ben Shmuel ha-Kohen wrote his kabbalistic essay "Kol Hamevaser" in Aba-Sava.[17] With the brutal destruction of Aba-Sava in roughly 1800 CE, however, the religious center of Mountain Jews moved to Derbent.
Prominent rabbis of Mountain Jews in the nineteenth century included: Rabbi Gershom son of Rabbi Reuven of
At the beginning of the 1950s, there were synagogues in all major Mountain Jewish communities. By 1966, reportedly six synagogues remained;[25] some were confiscated by the Soviet authorities.[46] While Mountain Jews observed the rituals of circumcision, marriage and burial, as well as Jewish holidays,[47] other precepts of Jewish faith were observed less carefully.[25] Yet, the community's ethnic identity remained unshaken despite the Soviet efforts.[48] Cases of intermarriage with Muslims in Azerbaijan or Dagestan were rare as both groups practice endogamy.[49][50] After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mountain Jews experienced a significant religious revival, with increasing religious observance by members of the younger generation.[51]
Educational institutions, language, literature
Mountain Jews speak Judeo-Tat, also called Juhuri, a form of Persian; it belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. Judeo-Tat has Semitic (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) elements on all linguistic levels.[52] Among other Semitic elements, Judeo-Tat has the Hebrew sound "ayin" (ע), whereas no neighboring languages have it. Until the early Soviet period, the language was written with semi-cursive Hebrew alphabet. Later, Judeo-Tat books, newspapers, textbooks, and other materials were printed with a Latin alphabet and finally in Cyrillic, which is still most common today.[52] The first Judeo-Tat-language newspaper, Zakhmetkesh (Working People), was published in 1928 and operated until the second half of the twentieth century.[53]
Originally, only boys were educated through synagogue schools. Starting from the 1860s, many well-off families switched to home-schooling, hiring private tutors, who taught their sons not only Hebrew, but also Russian.[54] In the early 20th century, with advance of sovietization, Judeo-Tat became the language of instruction at newly founded elementary schools attended by both Mountain Jewish boys and girls. This policy continued until the beginning of World War II, when schools switched to Russian as the central government emphasized acquisition of Russian as the official language of the Soviet Union.
Mountain Jewish community has had notable figures in public health, education, culture, and art.[55]
In the 21st century, the Russian government started encouraging the revival of cultural life of minorities. In Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, Judeo-Tat and Hebrew courses have been introduced in traditionally Mountain Jewish schools. In Dagestan, there is support for the revival of the Judeo-Tat-language theater and the publication of newspapers in that language.[55]
Culture
Military tradition
"And we, the Tats
We, Samson warriors,
Bar Kochba's heirs...
we went into battles
and bitterly, heroically
struggled for our freedom
-"The Song of the Mountain Jews"[56]
Mountain Jews have a military tradition and have been historically viewed as fierce warriors. Some historians suggest that the group traces its beginnings to Persian-Jewish soldiers who were stationed in the Caucasus by the Sasanian kings in the fifth or sixth century to protect the area from the onslaughts of the Huns and other nomadic invaders from the east.[57] Men were typically heavily armed and some slept without removing their weapons.[44]
Dress
Over time the Mountain Jews adopted the dress of their
Cuisine
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Mountain Jewish cuisine absorbed typical dishes from various
- Chudu – A type of meat pie.
- Shashlik – skewered meat chunks, such as lamb chops or chicken wings.
- Dolma – vegetables such as grape leaves, onions, peppers, tomatoes and eggplants that are stuffed with minced meat, then boiled.
- Kurze or Dushpare– Dumplings that are boiled and then fried in oil on both sides until golden brown and crispy.
- Yarpagi– Cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and cooked with quince, lamb riblets and a sauce made of dried sour plums (alcha).
- Gitob
- Ingar – Square shaped dumpling soup with Meat (Chicken/Beef/Lamb), sometimes with tamarind paste added to the soup.
- Ingarpoli – Dumplings served with tomato paste flavored minced meat on top.
- Dem Turshi – Rice soup flavoured with garlic, dried mint and dried cherry plums.
- Tara – Mallow stew with pieces of meat, dried cherry plum, garlic, dill and clintaro. In Baku sometimes its made vegan with chestnuts instead of meat.
- Nermov or Gendumadush – Chicken or other meat stew with wheat and beans, traditionally cooked overnight from Friday to Saturday.
- Dapchunda Osh – Rice pilaf with lamb chunks, qazmaq and dried fruits such as raisin, apricots and golden plums.
- Osh Lobeyi – Rice pilaf with cowpeas and smoked fish.
- Osh Kyudu – Pumpkin Rice pilaf with carrots, pumpkin, qazmaq and dried fruits, traditionally served for Hannukah.
- Osh Mast – White rice with Mast, a variety of yogurt, on top.
- Shomo-Koftebebeyi – Meatballs made from minced meat and onions cooked alongside potatoes, sometimes served on rice (osh).
- Buglame – (curry like stew of fish or chicken eaten with rice (osh).[59]
- Eshkene – Persian soup, made of Lamb, potatoes, onions, eggs, dried cherry plums, cinnamon and herbs such as cilantro, green onions, parsley and spinach, prepared for Passover.
- Yakhni Nisonui – The Derbendi variation of eshkene consist on lamb, potatoes, onions, eggs, dried cherry plums, cinnamon but without herbs, made on the first day of Passover.
- Yakhni Nakhuti – A soup made of lamb, chickpeas, potatoes and dried plums cooked in a tomato paste based soup. served with rice.
- Hoshalevo – (honey-based treats made with sunflower seeds or walnuts) typically prepared for Purim.
- Bischi – Fried dough topped with hot honey syrup, typically prepared for Purim.
- Hallegh – made with mixture of apples, walnuts, honey, raisins, cinnamon and wine, a ritual dish prepared for Passover.
- Pakhlava
- Fadi-shiri – A milk cake made of flour, eggs, butter, milk, sugar, turmeric, raisins, walnuts, sesame seeds and poppy seeds, served during Shavuot.
- Pertesh – A dish consist of a Lavash bread that is soaked in honey based syrup and filled with a milk porridge inside, served for Shavuot.
- Khashil – Sweet porridge made of flour, butter, honey, cinnamon and turmeric with a crunchy crust.
- Lovush Roghani
- Khashlama – Boiled chunks of meat, usually beef, veal, or lamb, as well as vegetables such as bell peppers, potatoes, tomatoes and onions, in hot water.
- Khoyagusht – Meat pie made of eggs, turmeric, slow cooked meat (usually sheep or goat) and its broth, often considered to be the "national dish" of the Mountain Jews.
- Khoyaghusht Kyargi – Khoyagusht with chicken instead of red meat.
- Khoyahusht Bodimjon – Khoyagusht with eggplants instead of meat, without turmeric.
- Nukhorush – Beef or Lamb cooked with quince, raisins, dried golden prunes, dried apricots, chestnuts and flavoured with turmeric, sometimes served alongside rice (osh).
- Nukhorush marjumeki – Lentil stew with potatoes, zucchini, onions, and carrots flavoured with cilantro, dill, cumin and turmeric.
- Gayle or Khayle – A dish made of herbs, onion and eggs.
- Dugovo – A soup made by cooking yogurt, with a little bit of rice, a variety of fresh herbs such as dill, mint, and coriander.
- Aragh – a strong alcoholic drink made of distilled fermented mulberry juice. It can be made from both black and white mulberries.
- Asido
- Harissa – A dish of Mountain Jews from the northern regions in Dagestan made of Meat, Potatoes and dried cherry plums cooked in tomato sauce, traditionally used in weddings.
Music
The music of Mountain Jews is mostly based in the standard liturgy, for prayer and the celebration of holidays. Celebratory music played during weddings and similar events is typically upbeat with various instruments to add layers to the sound.[60]
Notable Mountain Jews
- Omer Adam, Israeli singer
- Udi Adam, Israeli general[61]
- Yekutiel Adam (1927–1982), Former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces[61]
- Albert Agarunov (1969–1992), Azerbaijani soldier[61]
- Yakov Agarunov (1907–1992), Soviet poet and playwright
- Astrix, producer of Trance music
- Daniil Atnilov (1913–1968), Soviet poet
- Gyulboor Davydova (1892–1983), Soviet winegrower
- Hizgil Avshalumov (1913–2001), novelist, poet and playwright[62]
- Mishi Bakhshiev (1910–1972), Soviet writer and poet
- Manuvakh Dadashev (1913–1943), Soviet poet
- Mikhail Gavrilov (1926–2014), Soviet writer and poet
- Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer[63]
- Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov (1921–1992), Soviet physician (Mountain Jewish father, Ashkenazi Jewish mother)[61]
- Telman Ismailov, businessman[64]
- Tankho Israelov(1917–1981), dancer, choreographer
- Sergey Izgiyayev (1922–1972), author, translator, and songwriter[65]
- Tamara Musakhanov (1924–2014), Soviet sculptor and ceramist
- Vladmir Yakubov, USSR Mathematician
- Mushail Mushailov (1941–2007), Soviet/Russian artist and teacher
- God Nisanov, Russian businessman[66]
- German Zakharyayev (born 1971) – businessman, Vice-President of the Russian Jewish Congress[67]
- Gennady Simeonovich Osipov (1948–2020), Russian scientist and professor
- Iosif Prigozhin, Russian music producer
- Lior Refaelov, Israeli football player[61]
- Zoya Semenduyeva (1929–2020), Soviet and Israeli poet
- Robert Tiviaev, Israeli politician, former member of the Knesset[68][69]
- Israel Tsvaygenbaum, Russian-American artist (Ashkenazi Jewish father, Mountain Jewish mother)
- Yaffa Yarkoni (1925–2012), Israeli singer, winner of the Israel Prize in 1998 for Hebrew song [70]
- Anatoly Yagudaev (1935–2014), sculptor
- Zhasmin (née Sara Manakimova), Russian pop-singer (2005)[71]
- Yekutiel Ravayev (1881-1916), Mountain Jewish man that immigrated to Eretz Israel during the Ottoman era.[72]
Gallery
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Mountain Jewish delegates with Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland (1897)
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Mountain Jew c. 1898
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Mountain Jewish woman from Dagestan. 1870–1880.
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Mountain Jewish woman and her children c. 1900
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Mountain Jews of the Caucasus c. 1900
See also
- Mountain Jews in Israel
- Qırmızı Qəsəbə, the primary settlement of Azerbaijan's population of Mountain Jews (3600)
- History of the Jews in Azerbaijan
- History of the Jews in Derbent
- History of the Jews in Makhachkala
- World Congress of Mountain Jews
- Museum of Mountain Jews
- Judaism in Dagestan
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The traditional language of the Mountain Jews, is part of the Iranian language family and contains many Hebrew elements. In Juhuri, they call themselves Juhuri (Derbent dialect) or Juwuri (Kuba dialect), and in Russian they are known as Gorskie Yevrey.
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Further reading
- Shapira, Dan D.Y. (2010). "Caucasus (Mountain Jews)". In Norman A. Stillman (ed.). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Brill Online.
External links
- juhuro.com, website created by Vadim Alhasov in 2001. Daily updates reflect the life of Mountain Jewish (juhuro) community around the globe.
- newfront.us, New Frontier is a monthly Mountain Jewish newspaper, founded in 2003. International circulation via its web site.
- keshev-k.com, Israeli website of Mountain Jews
- gorskie.ru, Mountain Jews, website in Russian language
- "Judæo-Tat", Ethnologue