Journal: Antisemitism Studies
Year: 2018

Reviewed by: Where the Jews Aren’t—The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region by Masha Gessen Anna Shternshis Where the Jews Aren’t—The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. By Masha Gessen. New York: Schocken, 2016. 192 pages. $25.00 (paper). The subject of Birobidzhan—a Jewish autonomous district in the far east of Russia, designated in 1929 as a Jewish homeland for [End Page 165] impoverished Jews, devastated by civil war, pogr