Timeline for Nationality of the Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 18:54 | comment | added | PhishMaster | @Neith I never said it was impossible or ludicrous", but given that I read a lot about chess daily, for many decades now, and have never heard that they were, and given that they would be less than 1%, I only said "unlikely". It was just an educated guess. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 18:30 | comment | added | Neith | There actually is a group of Jews native to East Caucasus, including Azerbaijan. They are called Mountain Jews ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Jews ), and they speak a language related to Persian. They are less than 1% of Azerbaijan population, but there are some notable artists and businesspeople of that origin. On the other hand, Kasparov’s father Kim Weinstein and paternal grandfather Moses Weinstein were Jews born in Baku (not Mountain Jews though, but Ashkenazi). So the idea that an Azerbaijan native may be a Jew is not that ludicrous. | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 17:01 | history | edited | PhishMaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:52 | history | answered | PhishMaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |