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Dissatisfied, Stalin slowly shut down “Crimean California,” and devised a new plan: move the Jews to remote areas in Siberia where there was plenty of land and no reason to fight.
In 1928, the first Jewish families started to move to the Amur River basin, in the vicinity of a small village, Tikhonkaya (literally “Quiet one”). Gradually, it transformed into the city of Birobidzhan (6,000 km east of Moscow), and it became the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Official Soviet Jewish magazines published poems and tales dedicated to this region, which would become known as “the Soviet Palestine,” a long-awaited homeland for a landless people.
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In 1928, the first Jewish families started to move to the Amur River basin, in the vicinity of a small village, Tikhonkaya (literally “Quiet one”). Gradually, it transformed into the city of Birobidzhan (6,000 km east of Moscow), and it became the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Official Soviet Jewish magazines published poems and tales dedicated to this region, which would become known as “the Soviet Palestine,” a long-awaited homeland for a landless people.
Why did Stalin create a Jewish state in the distant reaches of Siberia?
In the 1920s, Joseph Stalin supported giving Soviet Jews their own homeland. The Jewish Autonomous Region, however, turned out to be a failure, in...
