print email comment close Stalin's Forgotten Zion: An Illustrated History, 1928-1996 URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Home/News/biro/ Description: In 1934, Stalin created the Jewish Autonomous Region in the region of Birobidzhan in Siberia as a Soviet alternative to Palestine. This online version of an exhibit created for the Judah Magnes Museum uses archival photographs and multimedia to document the experiment and its failure. It examines the notions of Jewish identity, culture, and community. Author: Weinberg, Robert Publisher: Swarthmore College Library of Congress Subject Headings: Birobidzhan (Russia) -- History Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast (Russia) -- History Jews -- Russia -- History Land settlement -- Russia Russia -- Ethnic relations LII Database Information: Record 12968 created by Barbara Bibel on 02/18/2002 Last modification on 12/04/2004 Published: 02/18/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12968