Name: Where the Jews Aren't: The sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)
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Author: Masha Gessen
ISBN: 9780805242461

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Masha Gessen

Publisher

Schocken Books Inc

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 15.0 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9780805242461

Edition No.

Synopsis "Where the Jews Aren't: The sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)"

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 thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges instigated by Stalin. But after the Second World War, Birobidzhan received another influx of Jews--those who had been dispossessed by the war. In the late 1940s a second wave of arrests and imprisonments swept through the area, traumatizing Birobidzhan's Jews into silence and effectively shutting down most of the Jewish cultural enterprises that had been created. Where the Jews Aren't is a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan--and how it became the cracked and crooked mirror in which we can see the true story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia. (Part of the Jewish Encounters series)

Masha Gessen

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Es autora del best seller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). Ha escrito diez libros de no ficción, su obra más reciente The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, ganó el National Book Award for Nonfiction en 2007; también ha escrito sobre los derechos de la población LGBTI y es considerada la principal activista LGBTI de Rusia.

Redactora en The New Yorker desde 2007. Ha colaborado en medios como The New York Times, The Washington Post y el Los Angeles Times.

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