The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) [a] is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. [14] Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan. The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928, and officially established in 1934.

Jewish Autonomous Region, autonomous oblast (region), far eastern Russia, in the basin of the middle Amur River. Although established in 1934 theoretically as a home for Jews in the Soviet Union, no mass Jewish migration developed, and Russian and Ukrainian settlers heavily outnumber the Jews.

In May 1928 the first group of Jewish settlers from cities and villages in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia arrived in the region that became the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. These individuals settled in many different areas of the autonomous oblast, some in Birobidzhan and others in various rural settlements. [2]

2016年9月7日 · Moscow's inaccessible and very, very far away. Nominally it's still the Jewish autonomous region, so its Jewish identity pops up in really bizarre ways.

2018年2月2日 · If you have, you might have noticed a tiny little region right at the border with China, called Jewish Autonomous Oblast. How did it appear there? Why was it established? Is it really Jewish? Here’s everything you need to know.

2017年11月10日 · Welcome to Jewish Autonomous Oblast, an area founded some 80 years ago as an alternative Jewish homeland in the Russian Far East. Its capital, Birobidzhan, is a city of some 75,000 people, and the region (“oblast” in Russian) stretches over some 36,000 square kilometers (14,000 square miles) of austere and largely uninhabited land.

Jewish Autonomous Oblast on the map of Russia To offset the growing Jewish national and religious aspirations of Zionism and to successfully categorize Soviet Jews under Stalin's definition of nationality, an alternative to the Land of Israel was established with the help of Komzet and OZET in 1928.

2016年8月17日 · From the perspective of the Soviet Jewish representatives (led by Yevsektsiia, or the Jewish Section of the Communist Party), the Jewish Autonomous region/Oblast' was intended as an explicit alternative to the Zionist project.

2016年9月7日 · Yet Jews throughout the world, particularly in the Yiddish-inflected left, yearned for this remote spot, designated by the Soviet government as a Jewish autonomous region. Enthusiasts from as far away as Los Angeles and Buenos Aires moved there.

2002年7月8日 · Birobidzhan is the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region, designated by Joseph Stalin in 1934 as the first official Jewish homeland. The first Jewish settlers arrived in 1928 - 20 years before...