Bidspirit auction | Mountain Jews. Orig. Antique Photo

Mountain Jews. Orig. Antique Photo of a Boy with Gun, PC size. - Mountain Jews. Orig. Antique Photo of a Boy with Gun, PC size. Some wear, stains to reverse side. Mountain Jews are the Mizrahi Jewish subgroup of the eastern and northern Caucasus, mainly Azerbaijan, and various republics in the Russian Federation: Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. Mountain Jews took shape as a community after Qajar Iran ceded the areas in which they lived to the Russian Empire as part of the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813.