These are among hundreds of artifacts on display at Azerbaijan’s new Museum of Mountain Jews in the remote town of Krasnaiya Sloboda, an all-Jewish shtetl of about 3,500 inhabitants and two ...

It was a beginner’s mistake. As Segal soon discovered Mountain Jews, an ancient community that comprises the bulk of Azerbaijan’s Jewish population of about 8,000, abstain from those products ...

Asaf Mishiev, 32, is reported to be well known in Azerbaijan's Jewish community, which numbers around 30,000 people.

A Mountain Jewish singer has been chosen to represent the Muslim country of Azerbaijan in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Asaf (Sefael) Mishiev will be performing as part of his Baku-based ...

and a singer in a Jewish band, who in the past participated in and won a song competition of the ‘mountain’ Jews and now teaches singing to Jewish children and teenagers. He adds that that ...