ofskfe: Mountain Jewish couple and children in Derbent, Dagestan, Russia. 1920s. After the Russian c
ofskfe: Mountain Jewish couple and children in Derbent, Dagestan, Russia. 1920s. After the Russian conquest, many of the Jewish occupants of rural Dagestan fled to Derbent, which became the spiritual center of the Mountain Jews. The Jewish population numbered 3,500 in 1903. In 1989, there were 13,000 Jews in the city, most of whom emigrated after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The city is home to machine building, food, textile, and fishery supplies, construction materials and wood industries. (x) -- source link
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