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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Russian: Еврейская автономная область (ЕАО), IPA: [jɪˈvrʲejskəjə ɐftɐˈnomnəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ (je a ˈo)]; Yiddish: ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט , romanized: Yidishe avtonome gegnt, IPA: [ˈjɪdɪʃə avtɔˈnɔmə ˈɡɛɡn̩t]) is a federal subject of ...
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The coat of arms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Russian:...
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The Legislative Assembly of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast...
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Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджа́н, IPA: [bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan];...
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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.
May 24, 2024 · 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.
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Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджа́н, IPA: [bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan]; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן, Birobidzhan) is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Russian: Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; Yiddish: ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, yidishe avtonome gegnt) is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in the Russian Far East, near Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China.
Birobidzhan is the colloquial name of the district (oblast) in Russia, for which the official designation was the "Jewish Autonomous District" (Avtonomnaya Oblast). Part of the Khabarovsk territory (kray) in the former Soviet Far East, the region is located between 47° 40ʹ–49° 20ʹ N. and 130° 30ʹ–135° E. To the west, south, and ...
Sep 23, 2020 · Today the region, formerly known as Birobidzhan, is known as the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, nominally the world’s only official Jewish territory, other than Israel. “What’s so Jewish about Siberia?” you might ask.
