Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Stalin's Forgotten Zion

Thursday, 5 February 2009

Stalin's Forgotten Zion

Birobidzhan and the making of a soviet Jewish homeland 
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In 1928, Jews from across the Soviet Union traveled to the Russian Far East. They were trying to build themselves a promised land. They brought their families, set up schools and created a community there. It took years of hard work but finally they built a capital city. It's called Birobidzhan.