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AZERBAIJAN · 41.4°N 48.5°E · TOWN

Krasnaya Sloboda (Qirmizi Qesebe)

Yevreyskaya Sloboda / Krasnaya Sloboda

"The last shtetl" - the Mountain Jewish (Juhuri-speaking) town across the river from Quba, founded in the 1740s as a protected Jewish settlement, home today of perhaps the world's last majority-Jewish rural town.

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Krasnaya Sloboda (Qirmizi Qesebe)

Azerbaijan · Town · 41.4°N 48.5°E

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Where is Krasnaya Sloboda (Qirmizi Qesebe)?

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THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Krasnaya Sloboda (Qirmizi Qesebe)?

1742–1920

Mountain Jewish settlement founded under the khanate (1740s)

1920–1991

Soviet era; collective economy

1991–present

Post-Soviet emigration; heritage town

Today

Today

A living Mountain Jewish town - a global rarity.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Krasnaya Sloboda (Qirmizi Qesebe) sound like?

Judeo-Tat (Juhuri)Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

Judeo-Tat (Juhuri) is a language with its own grammar, literature, and history — not “broken” anything, and not a dialect of Hebrew.

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Krasnaya Sloboda (Qirmizi Qesebe)

A living Mountain Jewish town - a global rarity.

  • Six-Dome Synagogue (Gilaki)

    synagogue · public landmark

    Restored.

  • Mountain Jews Museum (Kulp Synagogue)

    museum · museum

    Opened 2020.

In Israel & the diaspora

The community's story continued elsewhere — these places carry it now.

MoscowSaint PetersburgKyivMinskOdessaTel AvivHaifaJerusalemBeershebaNew York CityBerlin

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Saint Petersburg

Russia

Court Jews and capital elite under residence quotas (Gunzburg, Polyakov); home of the Grand Choral Synagogue (1893, second-largest in Europe) and Russia's second-largest community today.

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Kyiv

Ukraine

From the 10th-century Kievan Letter to Sholem Aleichem's Jewish Kiev and Babi Yar (29-30 Sept 1941: 33,771 Jews murdered in two days) - today Ukraine's largest, war-affected community.

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SOURCES & REVIEW

  • YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

    YIVO Institute for Jewish Research / Yale University Press · 2010 · open source

  • Azerbaijan - Virtual Jewish History Tour

    Jewish Virtual Library · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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