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Birobidzhan
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Birobidzhan, Birobijan (Russian) [birəbidˈʒan]
n
1. (Placename) a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop.: 82 000 (1994)
2. (Placename) another name for the Jewish Autonomous Region
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In some parts of Russia (Ingushetia in European Russia, Birobidjan in the Far East), peasant farmers produce more than the corporate farms.
Large and small business in Russian agriculture: adaptation to market by Uzun, Vasilii / Comparative Economic Studies
Because of the connection made by the Boyle family to the Birobidjan orphanage, the third segment project was a popular choice.
To Russia, with love: congregation supports orphanage that gave one ... by Williams, Ivor / Presbyterian Record
I have personal memories of my aunt, a Labor Zionist and close friend of Golda Meir, Eliezer Kaplan, Levi Eshkol, and others of Israel's founding fathers and mothers in the 1920s and 1930s, who in those same years fought against the Jewish Communists in Minneapolis who were touting the Communist Potemkin-like Jewish "homeland" of Birobidjan as their more progressive alternative to Zionism.
Israel, the fall of communism, and the re-emergence of European Jewry by Elazar, Daniel J. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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