Dispatches from Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
Courtesy of Masha Gessen
| 12:19 PM Nov 23, 2009
Seventy-five years ago, 600 Jews from Ukraine and Belarus traveled across Siberia to be the first settlers of Birobidzhan, a Jewish autonomous region 50 miles short of the Chinese border. To research a book she’s writing on the would-be homeland for Nextbook Press, journalist Masha Gessen retraced their path across Russia. She arrived at a ...