Birobidzhan

The mentioned Soviet created Jewish "autonomous" oblast called Birobidzhan in Russia's far east never attracted the majority of Soviet Jews.

Russia Blog 2009

The mentioned Soviet created Jewish "autonomous" oblast called Birobidzhan in Russia's far east never attracted the majority of Soviet Jews.

Russia Blog 2009

In 1934, when Liberberg was transferred to Birobidzhan to chair the Soviet (council) of the Jewish Autonomous Region, Rosenthal-Shneiderman, a close friend of her charismatic superior and his family, also moved to Birobidzhan.

Esther Rosenthal-Shneiderman. 2009

Some of the invited literati even entertained the notion that the Birobidzhan population would in the not-too-distant future speak a uniform Yiddish language rather than pristine dialects.

Esther Rosenthal-Shneiderman. 2009

The ambitious functionary Liberberg, for instance, appears in her books as an embodiment of the communist ideals of her youth, the antithesis of the party boss of Birobidzhan, Matvei Khavkin, whom she stereotyped as an upstart primitive bureaucrat.

Esther Rosenthal-Shneiderman. 2009

In the early 1930s, he tried to move this center to Birobidzhan.

Esther Rosenthal-Shneiderman. 2009

Perhaps it would be Birobidzhan, Petrescu thought—Birobidzhan being the marshy area in eastern Siberia that Stalin had set aside for Jewish colonization in the twenties.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

Also an experiment in tying Jews to the land as agrarian peasants removed from traditional shtetl occupations, the Region promised a theoretical revival of Yiddish culture and life, centered around the capital, Birobidzhan.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2003

If the goal was to make the world safe for Jews, there would have been mass evacuation to Birobidzhan or, hell, Antarctica years ago.

Pan-Judaism? | Jewschool 2004

I like the story of 49 N 133 E, which is near Birobidzhan in extreme eastern Russia.

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