Witness History: Witness Archive 2015 - A Jewish Homeland in Siberia

A Jewish Homeland in Siberia

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In 1930, the USSR created a Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia, as a homeland for Soviet Jews. Dina Newman talks to someone who grew up there.

Photo: Birobidzhan, the Jewish capital. Courtesy of Birobidzhan Regional Museum

Published on Friday, 30th October 2015.

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