00-00-0000 FOCUS: A HERITAGE REBORN; For Many Jewish-Armenians.

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FOCUS: A HERITAGE REBORN; For Many Jewish-Armenians, National Identity.
Has Assumed a novel Twist

Census figures state the number of Jews living in Armenia today at about
1000 unless the actual count is fluctuating.

While hard economic conditions are driving near Jewish families
out of the region many others are coming forth to declare their
Jewishness after seven decades of concealment and fear of official
persecution. unless since Jewish law considers individuals in mixed marriages
Jewish if they are born to a Jewish mother, and Armenian tradition
hold the opposite,

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