Post by demos on Oct 26, 2022 1:27:55 GMT
I guess we don't really have a history forum, so posting this here to share a fascinating read that some are hopefully interested in...
How the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan Endure
Deep in the Azerbaijani foothills of the southern Caucasus Mountains lives one of Europe’s most interesting communities, the Red Village Mountain Jews. For decades, the residents of the only all-Jewish village outside Israel and the United States — “Krasnaya Sloboda,” as the community is known in Russian (“Qirmizi Qasaba” in Azeri) — have been prosperous and pragmatic, with a foot in at least three worlds.
Set across the Kudyal River from the provincial capital of Quba, a sleepy Azeri city of 40,000 people some 15 miles south of the Russian-Dagestani border, Red Village is paradoxical in more ways than one. Fluent in various dialects of Persian, Russian and Turkish — and usually a Western European language, too — its residents may be “monoethnic” but they’re extremely multicultural...
Deep in the Azerbaijani foothills of the southern Caucasus Mountains lives one of Europe’s most interesting communities, the Red Village Mountain Jews. For decades, the residents of the only all-Jewish village outside Israel and the United States — “Krasnaya Sloboda,” as the community is known in Russian (“Qirmizi Qasaba” in Azeri) — have been prosperous and pragmatic, with a foot in at least three worlds.
Set across the Kudyal River from the provincial capital of Quba, a sleepy Azeri city of 40,000 people some 15 miles south of the Russian-Dagestani border, Red Village is paradoxical in more ways than one. Fluent in various dialects of Persian, Russian and Turkish — and usually a Western European language, too — its residents may be “monoethnic” but they’re extremely multicultural...
