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No pickles, no sugars and no cheese: Central Asian Mountain Jews try to preserve centuries-old Passover traditions

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Published: 23 March 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Passover is called “Nisonu” in Juhuri, the ancient and dying Farsi-based Jewish language of Mountain Jews

Central Asian Mountain Jews preserve centuries-old Passover traditions (Jpost)
Passover is called “Nisonu” in Juhuri, the ancient and dying Farsi-based Jewish language of Mountain Jews.

Photo: Zoya Avadayev and Rabbi Tsadok Ashurov Krasnaiya in Sloboda, Azerbaijan, in 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
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