Development Peculiarities of Ethnocultural Environment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the 1920-1950-s

Research in such a field as history and culture of Russian Jews is impossible without study of ethnic \nculture peculiarities encompassing its regional specificity. The present article is dedicated to the \nanalysis of the main stages of the so-called “Birobidzhan Project” in the sphere of ethnocultural \ncommunity building. Foundation of the Jewish national autonomy in the Far East was of strategic, \neconomic and political significance, satisfying the propaganda need to prove that the Soviet Jewish \nculture could be successfully developed. The author admits that the technology of the Birobidzhan \nProject implementation, determined by the forming social and political system, was the factor which \ndid not let its potential unlock to the full

Archaeology · Geography · Judaism · History · Jewish Identity and Society · Social and Behavioral Studies