General information about Baazov Street
Baazov Street
The main Street of Jewish district is called Baazov Street, where David Baazov used to live in 1903-1923 years; Today this street is on the verge of destruction. There used to be up to 3000 Jews living on Baazov Street, but today there are only 10 remaining. David Baazov became the Rabbi of Oni, in 1904, after he returned to Georgia from Slutsk, where he studied. Baazov founded Jewish public school in Oni, where he employed two qualified teachers from Russia. The school developed and became very popular among Jews of Oni; But after the revolution in Russia, the teachers left the school, which led to the downfall of the education center. The son of David Baazov, Gerzel Baazov, a Jewish-Georgian writer, was born on the same street in 1904.
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