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Robert Weinberg and Bradley Bermans carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet governments failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thousand miles east of Moscow, was designated the national homeland of Soviet Jewry. Establishing the Jewish Autonomous Region was part of the Kremlins plan to create an enclave where secular Jewish culture rooted in Yiddish and socialism could serve as an alternative to Palestine. The Kremlin also considered the region a solution to various perceived problems besetting Soviet Jews. Birobidzhan still exists today, but despite its continued official status Jews are a small minority of the inhabitants of the region. Drawing upon documents from archives in Moscow and Birobidzhan, as well as photograph collections never seen outside Birobidzhan, Weinbergs story of the Soviet Zion sheds new light on a host of important historical and contemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture. Given the persistence of the Jewish question in Russia, the history of Birobidzhan provides an unusual point of entry into examining the fate of Soviet Jewry under communist rule.
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Stalin's Forgotten Zion : Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland : an Illustrated History, 1928-1996
author
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Weinberg, Robert.
publisher
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University of California Press
isbn10 | asin
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0520209907
print isbn13
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9780520209909
ebook isbn13
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9780585211053
language
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English
subject
Jews--Russia--Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast --History, Jews--Russia--Birobidzhan--History, Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast (Russia)--History, Birobidzhan (Russia)--History, Russia--Ethnic relations.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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DS135.R93E989 1998eb
ddc
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957/.7
subject
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Jews--Russia--Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast --History, Jews--Russia--Birobidzhan--History, Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast (Russia)--History, Birobidzhan (Russia)--History, Russia--Ethnic relations.
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Stalin's Forgotten Zion
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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution provided by the General Endowment Fund, which is supported by generous gifts from the members of the Associates of the University of California Press.
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Stalin's Forgotten Zion
Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland
An Illustrated History, 1928-1996
Robert Weinberg
With an Introduction by Zvi Gitelman Photographs edited by Bradley Berman
University of California Press / Berkeley / Los Angeles / London Judah L. Magnes Museum / Berkeley
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Illustration, page xi: The June 1934 cover of ICOR: Birobidzhan Souvenir, by William Gropper, celebrating the establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Region (J.A.R.).
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles. California
University of California Press, Ltd. London. England
1998 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weinberg. Robert Stalin's forgotten Zion Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illus trated history, 1928-1996 Robert Weinberg; with an introduction by Zvi Gitelman, pho tographs edited by Bradley Berman. p. cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-520-20989-3 (cloth. alk. paper). ISBN 0-520-20990-7 (pbk alk. paper) 1 JewsRussiaEvreiskaia* avtonomnaia* oblast'History 2 JewsRussia BirobidzhanHistory 3. Evreiskaia* avtonomnaia* oblast' (Russia)History 4 Birobidzhan (Russia)History. 5 RussiaEthnie relations I Title. DS155 R95E989 1998 957'7de21 97-5052 CIP r97
Printed in the United States of America 987654321
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
ANSI Z3948-1981
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
Zvi Gitelman
1
The Birobidzhan Project
13
Selected Bibliography
97
Photographic Credits
99
Index
101
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This book would not have been possible without the inspiration and commitment of the leadership and staff of the Hi storical Museum of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
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Acknowledgments
This book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Judah L. Magnes Museum of Berkeley, California, in conjunction with the State Historical Museum of the Jewish Autonomous Region (J.A.R.) in Russia. In 1993 Tatiana Kosvintseva, director of the State Historical Museum of the J.A.R., invited the Magnes Museum to coproduce a show about the history of the region. Seymour Fromer, director of the Magnes Museum, and then traveling exhibitions curator Bradley Berman were intrigued by Kosvintseva's offer. They contacted me to see whether I would join the (ad)venture of putting together such an exhibit.
My interest in the J.A.R., popularly known as Birobidzhan, the region's capital city, was piqued in 1982 when I was a graduate student living in the main building of Moscow State University One morning, as I was exiting the building on the way to the library, I did a double take when I noticed a newspaper printed with the Hebrew alphabet for sale at a kiosk. On closer examination I realized that the newspaper was the Birobidzhaner shtern (The Birobidzhan star), the Yiddish daily from Birobidzhan, the purported national territory of Soviet Jewry I bought a copy of the paper and remembered to check the kiosk for the next eight months for future issues. Unfortunately, my diligence was not rewarded very often, since delivery of the Birobidzhaner shtern was irregular. Nonetheless, I made a mental note to turn my attention to Birobidzhan after I finished my project on Odessa during the Revolution of 1905. That opportunity came in the early 1990s, when I began to explore the history of Birobidzhan in earnest. In March 1992 I spent a month in Birobidzhan, working in the library and archives and learning as much as I could about the past and present of the Soviet Zion.
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