Abstract

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 culture could be successfully developed. The author admits that the technology of the Birobidzhan Project implementation, determined by the forming social and political system, was the factor which did not let its potential unlock to the full.

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