The story of Birobidzhan is an obscure one, according to Robert Weinberg, a professor of history at Swarthmore College. In the United States, he says, only septuagenarians and historians are likely to ...

The plan to start Jewish colonization in South Russia and the Crimea, with a view to establishing a Jewish autonomous province has undergone a change. A group of practical rescontruction workers have ...

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia -- The pioneers came in the late 1920s, lured to the uninhabited Siberian forests and mosquito-infested swamps by a mixture of communist ideological fervor and their dream of a ...

New York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a program to offer financial incentives encouraging Russian expats to move to the former Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan. The program hopes to ...

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region, a curious territory for Jews created by Josef Stalin, is playing a big role in a new drive by Russia to boost exports to China. Sign ...

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia (Reuters) - The tractor plant in this curious Russian outpost once made machinery to work the land settled by Jewish immigrants under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Sign up here.

Plans for building a special railroad to cover the newly-opened Jewish autonomous region Freidorf in the Crimea, have been announced by the Government Commission for Jewish Settlement (Comzet). It is ...