Stalin's forgotten Zion Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland ; an illustrated history, 1928 - 1996 Weinberg, Robert 1953- creator text xxu XD-US monographic eng IX, 105 S. : zahlr. Ill. "In 1934 the Soviet government established the Jewish Autonomous Region in a sparsely populated area some five thousand miles east of Moscow. Located along the Sino-Soviet border, the Jewish Autonomous Region, popularly known as Birobidzhan, was designated as the national homeland of Soviet Jewry. The creation of Birobidzhan was part of the Kremlin's effort to establish an enclave where secular Jewish culture rooted in the Yiddish language and socialist beliefs could serve as an alternative to Palestine and resolve a variety of perceived problems besetting Soviet Jews. Birobidzhan still exists today, but despite its continued official status Jews represent only a small minority of the inhabitants of the region." "Drawing on documents from archives in Moscow and Birobidzhan, as well as photograph collections never seen outside Birobidzhan, this book explores both the Kremlin's efforts to create a socialist Jewish homeland and the reasons for the failure of the Birobidzhan experiment. The story of the Soviet Zion sheds light on a host of important historical and contemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture. The history of Birobidzhan provides an unusual point of entry both to the "Jewish question" in Russia and to an exploration of the fate of Soviet Jewry under Communist rule."--BOOK JACKET. Robert Weinberg. Joden Juifs - Russie - Oblast autonome des juifs - Histoire Zelfbestuur Geschichte Juden Jews -- Russia -- Evreĭskaia avtonomnaia oblast' -- History Jews -- Russia -- Birobidzhan -- History Geschichte Juden Autonome Region Oblast autonome des Juifs (Russie) - Histoire Russie - Relations interethniques Russland Evreĭskaia avtonomnaia oblast' (Russia) -- History Birobidzhan (Russia) -- History Russia -- Ethnic relations Jüdisches Autonomes Gebiet Sowjetunion Russland Geschichte 1928-1996 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1928-1991 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1991-1996 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte gnd rswk-swf https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn=040205177 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/DNB|040205177 DS135.R93E989 1998 957/.7 21 SU 0.11 7,41 G:ge G:ru NY 4780 0-520-20989-3 0-520-20990-7 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal051/97005052.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/97005052.html ANTI FREIZ 19------ 980730 20121012 990004228170302884