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The History of Birobidzhan : building a Soviet Jewish homeland in Siberia / Gennady Estraikh.

Author/creator Estra ikh, G. (Gennadi i) author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.
Copyright Notice 2023
Description137 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Russian shorts
Russian shorts. ^A1452190
Contents The Specter of a Jewish Republic -- Growing Pains -- Repression -- The 1940s: New Hope -- An Almost-Lost World of Jewish Life -- A Propaganda Fa cade - Afterlife.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 131-132) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Estra ikh, G. (Gennadi i). History of Birobidzhan. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023 9781350296268
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9781350296244
ISBN1350296244 paperback
ISBN9781350296237 hardcover
ISBN1350296236 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication
ISBNelectronic book

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