English part: Some theoretical approaches for comparing Jewish life in Singapore, Manila, and Harbin / Jonathan Goldstein Birobidzhan project from the Japanese perspective / Chizuko Takao Jews of Harbin: nostalgia versus historical reality / Dan Ben-Canaan. Russian part: NKVD as an agent of Jewish emigration to Birobidzhan before the Soviet-German war (1937-1940) / Yuri Pikalov "Maybe it will be 'hakhshara' for Palestine?": Jewish colonization in the USSR in the context of interparty polemics in the Harbin Jewish community / Michael Zuzula City that was never built: the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer and his project for a "Jewish socialist city in the Lesser Khingan foothills" / Iosif Brener. Yiddish part: From Tshernowitz to Kiev and Birobidzhan: Yiddish language conferences between 1908 and 1937 / Holger Nath Trading places: Buzi Miller and internationalization of Jewish "bourgeois nationalism" / Ber Boris Kotlerman. Documents, memoirs, testimonies: The visit to Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan of Israeli ambassador to Moscow Yosef Avidar and his wife, Yemima Tchernovitz (1956): excerpt from Yemima's diary / introduced and annotated by Yaacov Roʹi (English) Yosef Trumpeldor in Japanese captivity (1905): an appeal to the Russian Emperor Nicolas II / introduced and annotated by Ber Boris Kotlerman (Russian) From Lithuania to Japan via the Trans-Siberian railway: Meyer Zucker's memoirs from 1940 / introduced and annotated by Sheva Zucker (English). Reviews: Bibliography of Japanese publications on Jews and Israel, 1989-2004 / Masanori Miyazawa (Hisao Takagi, English) Bauhaus in Birobidzhan: 80 years of Jewish settlement in the Far East of the USSR / Ber Boris Kotlerman and Shmuel Yavin (Nati Cantorovich, English) Hope and the illusion: in search for a Russian Jewish homeland: a remarcable [sic] period in the history of ORT (Alexander Frenkel, Russian) ; Yiddish-Japanese dictionary / Kazuo Ueda (Mitsuharu Akao, Yiddish). | 
