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An Experiment to Create a Soviet Jewish Homeland
In 1934 the Soviet government established the 'Jewish Autonomous Region' (JAR) in a remote and sparsely populated region of the Soviet Far East: Birobidzhan. The creation of the JAR was part of the Communist Party's effort to set up a territorial enclave with a secular Jewish culture, rooted in both Yiddish and socialist principles, that could serve as an alternative to Palestine.
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