Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072QYHL4B |
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| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Where the Jews Aren't is a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan - and how it became the cracked and crooked mirror in which we can see the true story of the Jews in 20th-century Russia.. The place was called Birobidzhan. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. In the late 1940s a second wave of arrests and imprisonments swept through the area, traumatizing Birobidzhan's Jews into silence and effectively shutting down most of the Jewish cultural enterprises that had been created. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges instigated by Stalin. In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. But after the Second World War, Birobidzhan received another influx of Jews - those who had been dispossessed by the war. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture
Stuart M. Wilder said No better book about the meaning of being a Jew. The feeling of never totally being a part of where you live, the anxiety arising from the knowledge that no matter what you do not everyone will accept you; in other words, that feeling that many European Jews must have felt as the 19No better book about the meaning of being a Jew The feeling of never totally being a part of where you live, the anxiety arising from the knowledge that no matter what you do not everyone will accept you; in other words, that feeling that many European Jews must have felt as the 1930's ground on that has descended upon us now with the proud publishing of what was just a few years unspeakable in the United States-- that Jews are the cause of unhappiness and misery-- that persons who support Donald Trump feel liberated to speak, is beautifully captured in this book. I would give this book to every child in H. 0's ground on that has descended upon us now with the proud publishing of what was just a few years unspeakable in the United States-- that Jews are the cause of unhappiness and misery-- that persons who support Donald Trump feel liberated to speak, is beautifully captured in this book. I would give this book to every child in H. Dmitry Krupitsky said This book is well written with a personal touch, not just a historic account.. This book is well written with a personal touch, not just a historic account. It answered my questions why and how Birobidzhan was first established. Why and how did it fail? Well, I could guess I have personal experiences Recommendation: do not read the last section before going to sleep. I was chased by Stalin's cronies in my nightmares. They did not listen what I had to say to defend myself.. Another sad story of persecution based upon ones religion A comprehensive review of the "city that never truly became a city" Having first come across this story in a book by Marek Halter I found this further excursion into a world most people to this day do not know existed was another testimony about the brutality of man to his fellow man. Another sad story of persecution based upon ones religion. History never exactly repeats itself but often times it just perpetuates stereotypes and prejudices against people who are just trying to make their own way in a hostile world.