Judaism in Dagestan

Almost all chronicles, toponymy, petroglyphs, and folklore related to Judaism were recorded precisely on those lands where the border posts of the Sassanids and later the Arabs functioned.

These areas include the modern Derbentsky, Tabasaransky, Kaytagsky, Suleyman-Stalsky, Khivsky, Magaramkentsky, Akhtynsky, Rutulsky, and Agulsky districts of Dagestan.

[4] Adam Olearius, who visited Dagestan in the first half of the 17th century, wrote about the Jewish population of Kaitag, Tabasaran, and Derbent.

[5]The same words are repeated in the work of Jan Janszoon Struys, a Dutch traveler who visited Dagestan in 1670: There are no Christians in the city of Derbent, but only Mohammedans and a few Jews.

There are only six clergymen of the Jewish religious denomination operating in Dagestan (community chairmen, cantors, and acting rabbis).

In one case, a group waving Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Semitic slogans forcefully entered the Makhachkala airport.