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Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
By Gessen, Masha
- ISBN
- 9780805242461 9780805243413
- Publisher
- Schocken
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Reviewed on June 15, 2016 | Social Sciences
The Bolshevik ideal of autonomous ethnic enclaves within Russia gave rise to Birobidzhan, a Yiddish-speaking territory set aside for Jews near the border with China. Its "sad and absurd" history mirrors that of Jews in the former Soviet Union, and for Gessen (The Brothers), her own journey as a Jew and a gay woman from the Soviet Union to the United States to Russia and back to the United S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
