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The view outside of the“Six Dome Synagogue” (“The Grand Synagogue,” designed by architect Hillel Ben Haim in 1888), one of three synagogues in Quba in Azerbaijan. Photo by Eliana Rudee.

Visiting the ‘Mountain Jews’ of Azerbaijan, one the world’s last remaining shtetls

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Affectionately called “Mountain Jews,” the Jewish community of Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) in the Quba district of Azerbaijan is home to nearly half the Jews living in this Muslim-majority country. Believed to be the...