Jewish bride and groom after the marriage ceremony. Sana'a, Yemen, 1930s.

Jewish wall hanging, Bukhara (Uzbekistan), 18th-19th century

Bukharan Jewish men from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1902

Jewish family from Ishafan, Iran, celebrating Sukkot, late 19th century

Mountain Jews in traditional costume, Dagestan (USSR), 1920s

Jewish merchant from Istanbul, Turkey, 1842

Recorded by Theodore Levin and Otanazar Matyakubov, 1991. From "Bukhara: Musical Crossroads of Asia"

Tombstone from the Jewish cemetery in Yeghegis, southeastern Armenia, 13th century

In the gorges of the Yeghegis Mountains there is a unique medieval Jewish cemetery filled with funerary poetry and expressions from the Bible and Talmud. Although there are many historical records of Jews in Armenia in ancient times, to date – except for a reference in an obscure Russian academic journal in 1912 – there is no information about the community during the Middle Ages. The names found on the tombstones were popular among Persian Jews, indicating that the Jewish population of Yeghegis may have had an Iranian background. However, the exact history of the emergence of this Jewish community and the circumstances of its disappearance after only 80 years, remains a mystery.

Nash Didan Jews in Urmia, Iranian West Azerbaijan, 1905

Amazigh Jewish women in Morocco, 1930s.

Bukharan Jewish women’s mourning scarves, Uzbekistan, early 20th century

Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) from Kutaisi, Georgia, 19th century

The Iraqi delegation at the 1932 International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo, Egypt. All the musicians were Jewish with the exception of the singer Mohammad al-Gubenchi.

Bukharan Jewish silk dyers in Margilan, eastern Uzbekistan, early 20th century

Fur hat of Hasidic Jews (Shtrayml), Eastern Europe, early 20th century

At the grave of Gershon Bar Reuben Mizrahi (1815 - 1891), Kabbalist and spiritual leader of Mountain Jews of the whole Caucasus. Jewish cemetery of Guba, Azerbaijan, 1987.

Lomza, Poland, 1927 - An old Jewish carpenter works a piece of wood with his hand tools