It consisted of shipping numerous Russian Jews off to the easternmost ... Birobidzhan’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast (administrative region) proved to be neither really Jewish nor really autonomous.

It is an unlikely place for a Jewish community - a small Russian ... Far East to build a new city, and set up a national homeland for Soviet Jewry with Yiddish as the official language. But less than ...

In the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin offered to provide Soviet Jews with a “promised land” in the Far East. This is how the Jewish Autonomous Region was formed. It was planned that 100,000 Jews ...

Joseph Stalin encouraged settlers in the Jewish Autonomous ... but as far as the religion was concerned, it simply wasn't there," said Rabbi Mordechai Sheiner, who moved to the region's capital ...

The Jewish Autonomous Region, however, turned out to be a failure, in large part because it’s located in one of the most remote areas in the Far East. Nevertheless, it still exists today ...

The capital of Russia’s so-called Jewish Autonomous Region ... Jewish national homeland in this forlorn district of the Russian Far East, 5,000 miles from Moscow along the northern border ...

Despite what its name and common sense suggest, the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia’s far east does not have a ... lasting effects of Soviet rule on Russian Jews–the indifference of many ...

The odd story of Stalin’s Russian homeland for the Jews ... of the 70th anniversary of the Jewish Autonomous Region, an area in Russia’s Far East that Stalin declared a secular Jewish homeland ...

Most seek work at Russian- or Chinese-owned ... represented in 40% of the Far East, most significantly in the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan. Regional governor Alexander Levintal said ...

The Jewish Autonomous Region is located in Russia's Far East. It borders China and the Russian regions of Khabarovsk Krai and Amur. The autonomous region was established in 1934 during the rule of ...