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marlenedunham@...
 

Does anyone know how to find death records from Baku in the 1920's. There does not seem to be much out there about Ajerbijan.
Joan Parker
 


Does anyone know how to find death records from Baku in the 1920's. There does not seem to be much out there about Ajerbijan




Marlene,
I will send your email to a friend who has an interest in Baku. We came across one another when the Miami Herald back in 1997 published an article about a Jewish culture surviving 2000 years in Sloboda.  What caught my eye was the surname of my MIL (Gelfand) in the article at a mission in Baku.. A mutual friend contacted him and she wrote in an email that there was a JGS in Baku. Bear in mind that is from 1997.The president was Mikhail Agavrunov.  .  You might also want to see what if anything is in the JewishGen archives.
Regards, 
Joan Parker
Past President/Archivist
JGS of Greater Miami, Inc.
1) GOLDBERG/ GOULD, GOODSTEIN/GUDSTEIN, BERGER, GERBER/CRAWFORD, JAGODA-Lipno, Plonsk, Plock, Poland-Russia; Warsaw, Poland-Russia; Galveston, TX; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY, Portland, OR, Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA.
2)  PARKER/PINKUS, WINOGRAD, (GERSHO-BEROVNA?)., R0SEN, -Brest (Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY. WEISS, NEIKRUG, DEL PINO--Brooklyn, NY.  RABWIN--Hollywood, CA, Salt Lake City, UT. CLAYTON-California.
3) GELFAND, KRITZOFF, KATZ, TROCK --Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus, Bronx, NY, Miami and Miami Beach, FL.
Alan Reische
 

Here's a link to the Ashkenazi community in Azerbaijan. Its still working as of this AM. There is apparently a separate synagogue for the Mountain Jews, quite a separate community with a fascinating history, but no website and limited contact information. If need be, I have a (non-Jewish) contact in Baku who could be helpful.

: https://www.ashkenazijews.az/.
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
 

1. it is Azerbaijan.
2. Are you looking for Ashkenazim or Sephardic/Mizrahi? The Jews of Azerbaijan are from Persia. However, in the early 1900s the fledgling oil industry attracted Ashkenazim from many places in the Russian Empire. A number of our Talalay from Mogilev Belarus worked in Baku before migrating to Philadelphia. There are 2 communities in Baku so your questions need to be addressed to the correct one.

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