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Jerusalem on the Amur

Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951

By: Henry Felix Srebrnik

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Jerusalem on the Amur

Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951

By: Henry Felix Srebrnik

The Canadian Jewish Communist movement, an influential ideological voice within the Canadian left, played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg, as well as many smaller centres, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Jerusalem on the Amur looks at the interlocking group of left-wing Jewish organizations that shared the political views of the Canadian Communist Party and were vocal proponents of policies perceived as beneficial to the Jewish working class. Focusing on the Association for Jewish Colonization in Russia, known by its transliterated acronym as the ICOR, and the Canadian Ambijan Committee, Henry Srebrnik uses Yiddish-language books, newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials to trace the ideological and material support provided by the Canadian Jewish Communist movement to Birobidzhan.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773577815

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9780773577817

Jerusalem on the Amur

Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951

By: Henry Felix Srebrnik

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Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951

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In 1928 the Soviet Union proposed the establishment of an autonomous socialist Jewish republic in the far eastern reaches of Russian territory. In Birobidzhan the eternal search for a Jewish homeland would be realized and Jews would possess their own institutions, which would function in Yiddish. A "new" Jew would be created, emancipated, and rejuvenated. Although the project was eventually revealed to be a fraud, thousands of left-wing Jews in Canada and the United States passionately supported it and campaigned on its behalf - some even emigrated to Birobidzhan.

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0773575014

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9780773575011

Dreams of Nationhood

American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951

By: Henry Felix Srebrnik

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Dreams of Nationhood

American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951

By: Henry Felix Srebrnik

The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials, Dreams of Nationhood traces the ideological and material support provided to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, located in the far east of the Soviet Union, by two American Jewish Communist-led organizations, the ICOR and the American Birobidzhan Committee. By providing a detailed historical examination of the political work of these two groups, the book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Jewish life in the United States.

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Jewish Identities in Post-Mode

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161811817X

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