A delegation of the Jewish communities in the Caucasus Mountains arrived here and submitted a request to the government to send a special commission to investigate the economic position of the Mountain Jews in order to afford them the possibility of settling on the land.
The delegation also applied to the Commissariat of Education, asking for the opening of schools in that district, which should be connected with the general school system of Soviet Russia, and to publish textbooks in the Tartar language. The delegation also appeared before the Council of the National Minorities in Soviet Russia and asked that the Caucasus Mountain Jews be permitted to have a representative on the Committee for Settling the Jews on the land.
The number of Jews who live in the Caucasus Mountains is 150,000.
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