Mountain Jews
In the 18th–19th centuries, the Jews resettled from the highland to the coastal lowlands but carried the name "Mountain Jews" with them. In the villages ("aouls"), the Mountain Jews had settled in separate sections. In the lowland towns they also lived in concentrated neighborhoods, but their dwellings did not differ from those of their neighbors. Mountain Jews retained the dress of the highlanders. They have continued to follow Jewish dietary laws and affirm their faith in family life. In 1902, "The New York Times" reported that clans of natives undoubtedly of Jewish origin, who maintain many of the customs and the principal forms of religious worship of their ancestors, were discovered in the remote regions of Eastern Caucasus.