Development Peculiarities of Ethnocultural Environment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the 1920-1950-s
Journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences
Year: 2016

Research in such a field as history and culture of Russian Jews is impossible without study of ethnic culture peculiarities encompassing its regional specificity. The present article is dedicated to the analysis of the main stages of the so-called "Birobidzhan Project" in the sphere of ethnocultural community building. Foundation of the Jewish national autonomy in the Far East was of strategic, economic and political significance, satisfying the propaganda need to prove that the Soviet Jewish cu