BIROBIDZHAN, Russia -- The pioneers came in the late ... Joseph Stalin encouraged settlers in the Jewish Autonomous Region to develop a community that would keep alive traditions such as the ...

The governor of Russia's Far East Jewish Autonomous Region says the area is "ready" to house Jews from Europe who are facing anti-Semitism. Aleksandr Levintal said his region "will welcome Jews ...

As many as 100,000 people may be evacuated from their homes near Russia’s border with China ... Khabarovsk and Jewish Autonomous regions. “The damage is extensive, but the most significant ...

The plan to start Jewish colonization in South Russia and the Crimea, with a view to establishing a Jewish autonomous province has undergone a change. A group of practical rescontruction workers ...

In turn, the co-chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia, Vladimir Krupin, stated that: “The Jews received Birobidzhan (the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian ...

The first Jewish children born in this emerging Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR ... A SUPPORTER of the Russian Communist Party stands next to a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, during ...

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics, International Relations and Russia, University of Bath It’s not the first time that Jews have felt it necessary to flee Russia, but the invasion of ...

This is how the Jewish Autonomous Region was formed. It was planned that 100,000 Jews would move there, but, in the end, only 19,000 arrived. A monument to the first immigrants is installed on the ...

When I read about the arrest of American Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, in Russia on March 29, my mind went back to the 1980s. In July 1985, I went to visit Abe Stolar. Stolar ...

In Russia’s little-known region of Birobidzhan last week, the local newspaper Nabat posted an online banner that read, "No to the aggression of the Israeli military against the Gaza Strip!