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Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad & Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region

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Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad & Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region

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Title: Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad & Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
Author: GESSEN MASHA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/09/2016
Imprint: DOUBLEDAY
Price: $18.95
Publishing status: Active

“In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews. It was championed by a group of intellectuals who envisioned a place of post-oppression Jewish culture, and by the early 1930s, tens of thousands of Jews had moved there from the shtetls. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges of the Communist Party and cultural elite, but after the Second World War, the newly named oJewish Autonomous Regiono received an influx of Jews dispossessed from what had once been the Pale, most of whom had lost families in the Holocaust. In the late 1940s, another wave of arrests swept through Birobidzhan, traumatizing the Jews into silence, and effectively making them invisible. Now Masha Gessen gives us a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan:and how it became”

ISBN: 9780805242461
Pages: 192