Where the Jews aren't : the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region / Masha Gessen

"The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the strange history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question. In 1929, the Sov...
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"The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the strange history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question. In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews. In the late 1920s and early 1932, tens of thousands of Jews moved to Birobidzhan, chased from the shtetl by poverty, hunger, and fear. Birobidzhan was written about breathlessly by a small group of intellectuals who envisioned a home built by Jews for Jews--a place where Jews worked the land and where Yiddish would become the common language of a post-oppression Jewish culture. The short period of state-building ended in the late 1930s with arrests and purges of the Communist Party and cultural elite. After the Second World War, Birobidzhan, now called the "Jewish Autonomous Region," received a new influx of Jews. These were the dispossessed from what had once been the Pale, and most of them had lost families in the Holocaust. They had no one and no place to return to. Once again, in the late 1940s, a wave of arrests swept through Birobidzhan, frightening the Jews into silence and making them invisible. WHERE THE JEWS AREN'T is the story of the dream of Birobidzhan--and how it became a nightmare. In Masha Gessen's haunting and haunted account, Birobidzhan becomes the cracked and crooked mirror that allows us to see the story of the history of absence and silence that is the story of Jews in twentieth-century Russia"
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PPN (Katalog-ID):	844962171

Personen:	Gessen, Maša - 1967- [VerfasserIn]

Medienart:	Buch
Umfang:	169 Seiten ; 1 Illustration ; 23 cm
Sprache:	Englisch

Erschienen:	New York: Nextbook/Schocken ; [2016]
Auflage:	First edition

Basisklassifikation:	15.74 Russland Geschichte 15.96 Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel
Schlagwörter:	Jüdisches Autonomes Gebiet / Geschichte
weitere Schlagwörter:	Birobidzhan (Russia), History Evreĭskai︠a︡ avtonomnai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia), History Jews

Allgemeiner Hinweis:	Includes bibliographical references Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

Ungezählte Reihe:	Jewish encounters series
Bibliogr. Zusammenhang:	Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Gessen, Masha, author ; New York : Nextbook/Schocken, [2016] ; Where the Jews aren't

ISBN:	978-0-8052-4246-1