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Where the Jews Aren't

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

Where the Jews Aren't( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Gessen, Masha
Series title:Jewish Encounters Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8052-4246-1
Publication Date:Sep 2016
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $50.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: History / Russia / Soviet Era
History / Jewish
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.9 x 22.4 x 2.4 cm
Book Weight:0.398 Kilograms
Author Biography
Gessen, Masha (Author)
Masha Gessen is a Russian American journalist. She has written several books including The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, and The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2017.

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