Jerusalem on the Amur: Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951

In 1928 The Soviet Union Proposed The Establishment Of An Autonomous Socialist Jewish Republic In The Far Eastern Reaches Of Russian Territory. In Birobidzhan The Eternal Search For A Jewish Homeland Would Be Realized And Jews Would Possess Their Own Institutions, Which Would Function In Yiddish. A New Jew Would Be Created, Emancipated, And Rejuvenated. Although The Project Was Eventually Revealed To Be A Fraud, Thousands Of Left-wing Jews In Canada And The United States Passionately Supported It And Campaigned On Its Behalf - Some Even Emigrated To Birobidzhan.