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Jerusalem on the Amur

Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951

Henry Felix Srebrnik author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:3rd Oct '08

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Focusing on the Association for Jewish Colonization in Russia, known by its transliterated acronym as the ICOR, and the Canadian Ambijan Committee, this work traces the ideological and material support provided by the Canadian Jewish Communist movement to Birobidzhan. It helps to understand the twentieth-century Jewish life.The involvement of Canadian Jewish Communists in the development of an autonomous Jewish region in the Soviet Union.

"The book will be of enormous interest to students of the Jewish left and radicalism in this country." Gerald Tulchinsky, Queen's University "A masterful study of a long-forgotten aspect of both Soviet and modern Jewish history." Irving Abella, J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, York University, Ontario

ISBN: 9780773534285

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 670g

360 pages