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The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Peoples. of the Red Book. THE MOUNTAIN JEWS. Self-designation. In literature they have been referred to as Mountain Jews, Tats and Dagchufuts. Habitat. ... of ethnic origin, it is assumed that the Mountain Jews and Tats have inhabited Caucasia for a long ... assimilated, the predecessors of the Mountain Jews settled on the west coast ...
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Are Mountain Jews Descended from the Khazars? An Examination of Jewish Tribes from the Eastern Caucasus. by Kevin Alan Brook ... The question of whether the Mountain Jews of Daghestan (in the north Caucasus) and Azerbaijan ... doubts about the possibility that Mountain Jews are entirely or predominantly Khazarian ...
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Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia\'s article on \'Mountain Jews\' ... By George Kennan, October, 1913. Mountain Jews, or Juhurim, are Jews of the eastern Caucasus, mainly of ... they have been referred to as Mountain Jews, Jewish Tats and Dagchufuts ...
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\"Mountain Jews\"

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Mountain Jews, or Juhurim, are Jews of the eastern Caucasus, mainly of Dagestan.

Self-designation
In literature they have been referred to as Mountain Jews, Jewish Tats and Dagchufuts.

Location
The majority of Caucasian Mountain Jews live in Dagestan, Kaitag and Magaramkend (three settlements), and in Derbent and Makhachkala, they can be found in a few Azerbaijani villages (Krasnaya Sloboda, Vartashen) and in some towns. A small number have settled in North Caucasia -- Gorny and Nalchik.

Population
The population is difficult to estimate, as during the censuses the Mountain Jews have been counted as members of the overall Jewish community, or as Tats whose language they speak. In 1926 they numbered approximately 26,000; in 1959 about 15,000 lived in Dagestan (the Russian Federation total was 16,707) and more than 10,000 in Azerbaijan. In 1979 the overall number of Jews in Dagestan was 19,000 and 35,000 in Azerbaijan, the percentage of Mountain Jews is unknown.

Language
The Mountain Jews speak Tat, a dialect of Modern Persian, which belongs to the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. The same language is spoken by the Tats of Azerbaijan and Dagestan to whom the Mountain Jews have sometimes been considered to belong.

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