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3 unusual facts about David Baazov


Baazov

David Baazov (1883-1947), Georgian-Jewish Zionist leader and rabbi

David Baazov

After the Sovietization of Georgia in 1921, Baazov, aided by his son, the leading Georgian-Jewish writer Gerzel Baazov, organized Jewish schools across the country and later founded the magazine makaveeli ("Maccabean") which was closed by the Soviet authorities during a crackdown on Georgian Jewish cultural institutions after the 1924 anti-Soviet August Uprising in Georgia.

During the purge of 1938, both of his sons were arrested by the Soviet NKVD and Gerzel was executed.



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