ntil recent decades, Juhuri speakers were concentrated primarily in the towns and villages on the eastern slopes of the Caucasus mountains. Today, with a global population estimated between 100-200,000, they live primarily in Israel and the U.S., although thousands remain in Dagestan and Azerbaijan. Probably several thousand strong, the Juhuri-speaking community in New York is centered in central Brooklyn around the Kavkazi Jewish Congregation (Or HaMizrekh) on Ocean Parkway. The Lezginka Dance Company, based in Brooklyn, preserves and continues community dance traditions through teaching and performance. The Juhuri (or Judeo-Tat) language is still spoken by many middle-aged and older people, who were born in the Caucasus, and is maintained in some families and some spheres of daily life, but many have switched to Russian or English, and many of the older generation also speak Azeri. Read more here.