ABSTRACT
To understand the recent demography of North Caucasian Jewry especial attention should be given to their population characteristics in the late Soviet period. For such an analysis the demographic peculiarities of Daghestani Jews – the most sizable part of North Caucasian Jewry, for whom we have comprehensive census data – will be studied in detail. Based on the results of the 1994 Russian micro-census, we can measure the changes for the Jews of this republic over the five year period since the 1989 Soviet census. The data of the 2002 All-Russian census allow us to study population dynamics and shifting identity among North Caucasian Jewry in different republics for a much longer period. For a better understanding of these data, the peculiarities of counting Mountain Jews in this census will be presented in detail.
