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Dreams of nationhood American Jewish communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan project, 1924-1951 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Srebrnik, Henry Felix.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.
Series:Jewish identities in post modern society.
Subjects:
Icor.
Jews > United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Jewish communists > United States > History > 20th century.
Communism > United States > History > 20th century.
Birobidzhan (Russia) > History.
Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast (Russia) > History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: American Jews, communism, the ICOR and Birobidzhan
  • The formation of Ambijan
  • The people's delegation and the popular front, 1935-1939
  • Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: the ICOR
  • Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: Ambijan
  • The postwar orphans' campaign and the Ambijan-ICOR merger
  • The glory years, 1946-1948
  • Ambijan and the creation of israel
  • The gathering storm: McCarthyism, cold war, and decline
  • Islands of resistance, 1949-1950
  • Conclusion: from hope to hoax.

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