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The Jewish community is officially registered in Mongolia.

The Mongolian Jewish community was officially registered a few days ago.
A Mongolian Jew seems to be as rare species as "a Jew-deer breeder", once mentioned by the late General Lebed. Nevertheless, during the past 800 years, the Jewish community has emerged on three occasions.
First time it happened during the rule of the "Shaker of the Universe"- Ghinges Khan and his sons, when the empire's capital Karakorum, which they built, was populated by various nationalities, including Jews. Unfortunately, there is almost no information available on that community, which disappeared without a trace in the 14th century, after the Mongol empire had collapsed and Karakoum had been devastated.
Second Jewish community emerged in Mongolia at the end of the 19th century. Those were almost all Russian Jews living in Urga (then, the name of the Mongol capital Ulan Bator). The ending was not a happy one for that community either. Having taken Ugra by storm in the beginning of 1921, the semi-crazy baron Ungern von Sternberg inflicted a cruel Jewish pogrom. Von Sternberg was shortly followed by the representative of the local Soviet authorities. It seemed as if the Jews were to wait for yet another seven centuries to see the community reemerge.
However, the Soviet rule collapsed in Mongolia a lot faster

Источник: Sem40.ru