Jewish Community of Azerbaijan

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Jewish_Community_of_Azerbaijan

GPTKB entity

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:hasSubgroup	gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jews gptkb:Georgian_Jews gptkb:Mountain_Jews
gptkbp:historicalPresence	5th century CE
gptkbp:holiday	gptkb:Hanukkah gptkb:Passover gptkb:Rosh_Hashanah gptkb:Yom_Kippur
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Jewish Community of Azerbaijan
gptkbp:Krasnaya_Sloboda_population	about 3,500 (as of 2020s)
gptkbp:Krasnaya_Sloboda_significance	one of the largest all-Jewish towns outside Israel and the US
gptkbp:languageSpoken	gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Russian gptkb:Azerbaijani gptkb:Juhuri
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Azerbaijan
gptkbp:majorCity	gptkb:Baku gptkb:Oghuz gptkb:Quba
gptkbp:notable_cultural_contribution	Jewish cuisine in Azerbaijan preservation of Juhuri language
gptkbp:notable_emigration	significant emigration to Israel and Russia after 1991
gptkbp:notable_interfaith_relations	generally peaceful with Muslim majority
gptkbp:notableDiaspora	gptkb:Azerbaijani_Jews_in_Israel gptkb:Azerbaijani_Jews_in_Russia gptkb:Azerbaijani_Jews_in_the_United_States
gptkbp:notableEvent	Soviet repression of religious life restoration of synagogues in 21st century revival after Azerbaijan independence
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Quba_Jewish_Cemetery gptkb:Mountain_Jews_Synagogue_in_Quba gptkb:Or_Avner_Jewish_School_in_Baku
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Milikh_Yevdayev
gptkbp:notableOrganization	Jewish Community of Azerbaijan (official organization)
gptkbp:notablePublication	Jewish newspaper in Baku
gptkbp:notableRuler	gptkb:Rabbi_Shneor_Segal
gptkbp:notableSupporter	supported by Azerbaijani government
gptkbp:notableTown	gptkb:Krasnaya_Sloboda
gptkbp:population	approximately 16,000 (as of 2020s)
gptkbp:relations_with_government	generally positive
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Azerbaijani_Jews
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6