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Stalin's forgotten Zion
Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland
By Weinberg, Robert E.
- ISBN
- 978-0-52020-990-9
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press : c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 1998
The creation of a Jewish homeland in the Soviet Far East remains one of the more bizarre episodes of Stalin's nationality policy. Weinberg's (The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa, Indiana Univ., 1995) short history of the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR) includes an excellent collection of photographs and documents and conveys a sense of the impossible odds of heroic settlers "unprepared psyc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
