In the Amur Region and the
Jewish Autonomous Region the share of turnover of enterprises with foreign capital exceeds the average level in Russia.
Over 40,000 people in the Far East are currently involved in relief and rescue operations in the Amur Region, the Khabarovsk Territory and the
Jewish Autonomous Region following heavy rains that caused the Amur River to burst its banks, RIA Novosti reported.
Two years later it was declared a
Jewish Autonomous Region, and it was promised that when the Jewish population reached 100,000 or formed a majority that it would be declared an official Soviet republic.
He discusses internal conflicts in this press, Soviet Yiddish language experiments, and the plan for the
Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan.
The film depicts a Jewish family coming to the Soviet Union to develop a communal farm in Birobidzhan, the far eastern territory designated the "
Jewish autonomous region" in 1934.
Equally intriguing is a detailed chapter about an early ideological experience with transnationalism, that is, the story of Canadian Jewish Communists in the 1920s and 1930s and their failed hopes for Birobidzhan, a "
Jewish Autonomous Region," in the former Soviet Union.
(This was Stalin's
Jewish autonomous region near Siberia, the anti-imperialist answer to Zionism.)
Fefer and other Jewish writers of the Russian Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee had been arrested and charged with attempting to have the
Jewish Autonomous region in Birobidjan moved to the Crimean Peninsula.
On 7 May 1934, in an effort to make the project more attractive to Soviet Jews, Moscow declared Birobidzhan a
Jewish Autonomous Region (Oblast), with the promise that when Jews would number at least 100,000, or form a majority of the total population, it would become a Soviet republic.(2)