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Jewish Encounters: Where the Jews Aren't : The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Hardcover)
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Jewish Encounters: Where the Jews Aren't : The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Hardcover)
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"Where the Jews aren't" is Birobidzhan, a region in the far east of Russia, beyond Siberia and close to the Chinese border. After the Russian Revolution, this area was proposed as the site of an autonomous Jewish homeland within the Soviet Union. This very cold and swampy place was not well suite...
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Basically equal parts history, biography, memoir, and travelogue, Gessen is essentially looking at the fate of Russian Jewry through the lens of David Bergelson, a Yiddish-speaking man of letters who you can either view as being something of a confidence man or a martyr to a certain idea of cultu...
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