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Masha Gessen

Where the Jews Aren't

The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region

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From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration.In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan.The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thou… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8052-4246-1
  • EAN: 9780805242461
  • Produktnummer: 19307333
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H22.5 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.5 cm 392 g
  • Gewicht: 392

Über den Autor


MASHA GESSEN's previous books include The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy and the national best seller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. She has immigrated to the United States twice-once, as a teenager, from the Soviet Union and again, more than thirty years later, from Putin's Russia. She lives in New York City.

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