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The Georgian Jews have traditionally lived separately, not only from the surrounding Georgian people, but even from the Ashkenazi ("European or Germanic Jews") community in Tbilisi.

The community, which numbered about 100,000 as recently as the 1970s, has largely emigrated to Israel, the United States, the Russian Federation and Belgium.
As of 2004, only about 13,000 Georgian Jews remain in Georgia. According to the 2002 First General National Census of Georgia there are 3,541 Jewish believers in the country.

Just a few Jewish families remained in the old Jewish quarter of Tskhinvali where the recent Georgian bombardment seems to have been particulary heavy; several blocks of one- and two-storey homes were said to have been totally destroyed by bombing by Reuters reporters.
All but one of those Jewish residents fled during the recent war, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee says. The one remaining Jew, a 71-year-old woman, apparently sought shelter

A a century-old brick empty synagogue provided a safe shelter for about 50 people, mostly women and children and several elderly men, not so fortunate on Tskhinvali's Shaumian Street.
Limited to the few supplies they brought with them, the refugees endured excruciating thirst and hunger while agonizing over the sounds of war outside, but all survived.

About a block away, a line of houses was reduced to splinters and cinders by rocket fire. A rocket exploded in the synagogue's yard, shattering some windows but leaving the structure intact.'
- Associated Press

Despite the strong condemnation of the Georgian assault on South Ossetia by the president of the World Congress of Russian Jews, Boris Shpigel, there does not seem to be any evidence of antisemitism in this internal seperatist stuggle.


'LSO conductor Valery Gergiev leads pro-Russia concert in Ossetia'

Gergiev -- who grew up in the neighboring Russian region of North Ossetia -- visited the devastated Jewish Quarter of South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, before conducting a special concert on the town's central square.

'The program was specially designed to combine pomp, grandeur and defiance with pathos and grief.

Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, written on the orders of Stalin to rouse Russians against the Nazi invasions, was followed by the delicate strains of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony.

Russian soldiers perched on the top of armoured personnel carriers, straining for a better view, as Orthodox priests, Jewish rabbis and even an imam passed through the audience granting benedictions to a self-proclaimed nation united in victory.'

Telegraph.co.uk 22 Aug 2008