From Pogrom to The Soviet Promised Land: The Dispersity, Migrations and Consolidation of The Dzhegonas Mountain Jews at The North Caucasus (1917 – beginning 1930s)

The article devotes itself to establishing and describing the key events in the “migration history” of the Dzhegonassko-Evreyskoe Mountain Jews. The problem is discussed in the context of this group’s post-revolutionary history, up until the beginning of the 1930s. The article analyzes the debatable issues of the fate of the devastated settlement of the Dzhegonas Jews in 1918 and in the subsequent period, their further dispersion on the North Caucasus territory. Additional evidence has been uncovered that confirms the residency of a large portion of this group of Mountain Jews in the village of Nevinnomysskaya, as well as their links to other groups of Mountain Jews. Additional facts about the attempts of the Dzhegonas Jews to return to the lands of their old village in Karachay-Cherkessia in the first half of the 1920s have been revealed. It is shown how the question of land management of the Dzhegonas Jews turned out to be connected with the regular collection by the Soviet, Communist Party and other structures of a variety of accounting, statistical and other information about them (as well as about the Mozdok and Grozny mountain Jews). The forms and methods of consolidation of Dzhegonas Jews in the Soviet policy of indigenization of national minorities and the settlement of Terek District by mountain Jews organized by the authorities are studied.

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