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Article: Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland.
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- Journal of European Studies
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- September 1, 1998
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By Robert Weinberg. Introduction by Zvi Gitelman. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 105. US$24.95.
In 1934 the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR) was established in the Soviet Union. Popularly known as Birobidzhan, from the name of its capital city, this region the size of Belgium was some five thousand miles east of Moscow and bounded in the south by the Amur river which marked the border between the USSR and China. It was swampy, undeveloped, and hostile. Yet in the 1930s many Soviet Jews, and even some Jews from outside the Soviet Union, chose to move there as pioneer settlers and to participate in the creation of a secular, ...
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