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The History of Birobidzhan - Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Hardcover)
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The History of Birobidzhan - Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Hardcover)
Series: Russian Shorts
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Gennady Estraikh's book explores the birth, growth, demise and
afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The
History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in
Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the 'Jewish question',
arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally
insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental,
role in determining Jewish rights and entitlements in the Soviet
world. Estraikh brings together a broad range of Russian and
Yiddish sources, including archival materials, newspaper articles,
travelogues, memoirs, belles-letters, and scholarly publications,
as he describes and analyses the project and its realization not in
isolation, but rather in the context of developments in both
domestic and international life. As well as offering an assessment
of the Birobidzhan project in the contexts of Soviet and Jewish
history, the book also focuses on the contemporary 'Jewish' role of
the region which now has only a few thousand Jewish occupants
amongst its residents.
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