Mountain Jews Museum @ Qırmızı Qəsəbə: The Jewish Heart of the Caucasus

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:07][music] >> Senegal.

[00:00:31]What were the Tenneson people hoping for?

[00:00:34]>> [music] >> The commander of the army of Nadir Shah was frightened and said, "What did I do?

[00:00:43]I hit the holy book." And Ruben answered him, "You have committed a sin. Repent and punishment will not overtake you.

[00:00:50]The book is a sign from above. I repent.

[00:00:53]I will not do harm to you anymore."

[00:00:56]Then the commander of the army Nadir Shah gave the order not to touch the Jews and other people who lived in Qusar.

[00:01:04]We thought in 1920s the reason they would stop also.

[00:01:18]In here, you will get informed about Mad the root in 19 and 20th centuries. Mountain Jewish people collaborated in this area and also in Derbent. Derbent [music] city situated in Russian area, but still ancient. This is the tobacco porch.

[00:01:41]Yeah, tobacco pipes.

[00:01:47]Um in the home pipes, the size of also you are looking.

[00:01:56]This is the kosher In 19th and 20th centuries, mountain Jewish people made kosher wine in Derbent and Guba, uh in this area also.

[00:02:09]Several leaders in the Anisimov Philip Philip Philip uh is a famous on Jewish study. And also, it was translated [music] from Hebrew to the Russian language.

[00:02:24]Uh I want to show you.

[00:02:26]And there I can get information about mountain Jewish culture.

[00:02:32]They are living in there uh 300, maybe more years.

[00:02:37]Also, they take it the Azerbaijan culture as Azerbaijan dishes.

[00:02:44]Yeah.

[00:02:48]>> [snorts] >> Yeah.

[00:03:01]With Juhuri, no mixed between There's also some words Juhuri with the English.

[00:03:17]This is the our first biggest synagogue.

[00:03:21]Also, uh for information I want to show you still today in this village uh total 13 synagogues we had. It was published in Baku in Guba between 19 uh '31 and then 19 '38. The local newspaper Araz Kollektivi.

[00:03:40]The past of collectivism.

[00:03:46]Yeah.

[00:03:46]You know this guy? Yes.

[00:03:49]I can uh so what? Government killed him. Yeah.

[00:03:54]Yeah, this picture is family in Ukraine also.

[00:04:00]The village killed 40 families in the inside [music] the brick factory.

[00:04:08]In Bagdanovka village killed 470 people.

[00:04:12]In Pepiyivka in Ukraine killed 114 [music] Jewish people by German troops.

[00:04:20]So this is the Russian Yeah. Ukraine. Russian. But this was all the Soviet Union.

[00:04:27]>> Yes, before yes.

[00:04:29]So everything SSR is Soviet Soviet Socialist Republic. Republic, yes.

[00:04:37]Uh in the Second World War Jewish people fighted uh together with Britain troops in the Second World War with the German troops.

[00:04:51]Uh This is the family doctors.

[00:04:56]Yeah, this is the leather bag.

[00:04:59]And there you can read Martha's name in the Second World War.

[00:05:04]Also was there Israel troops name there.

[00:05:13]Used this music instructor on their weddings. On there also he was studied uh middle school in here.

[00:05:24]But after he was studied in Russia, Moscow uh orthopedics and dermatology uh science.

[00:05:37]Uh He was made Ilizarov instructor for the uh, broken arms, broken legs for the first floor.

[00:05:50]Uh, was opened in Baku 2011 years.

[00:05:54]Uh, it was made by Azerbaijan government for the Mountain Jewish people. It's named New Baku Synagogue.

[00:06:04]From our side, promise Also, maybe you have information, uh, Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, Mountain Jewish, and also, uh, Bukhara Jewish.

[00:06:17]Bukhara Jewish living in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Yes. Actually, uh, also, they are speaking with, uh, Uzbek, Turkmen language mixture.

[00:06:31]Like as Yiddish.