Les Juifs de Tbilissi — communauté perse-géorgienne

In addition to the long-established Georgian Jews and the more recent Ashkenazi community, Persian Jewish merchants settled in Tbilisi, playing the role of intermediaries in trade between Iran, the Caucasus and Russia. Stemming from Iranian Judaism, they were distinguished by their origins and customs from the other Jewish components of the city. Over time, this small community drew closer to and partly merged into the broader Georgian Jewish ensemble. Like the other Jews of Georgia, its descendants emigrated in large part in the twentieth century, notably to Israel.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill