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2) Where the Jews aren't: the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region
Author
Series
Publisher
Nextbook/Schocken
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the strange history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question. In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews. In the late 1920s and early 1932, tens of thousands of Jews moved to Birobidzhan, chased from the shtetl by poverty, hunger, and fear. Birobidzhan was written about breathlessly by a small group of intellectuals who envisioned a home built...
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